Tropical storm Gordon made landfall Tuesday evening, bringing heavy rain to parts of the South.

Gordon weakened to a tropical depression soon after landfall and will continue to bring rain to the South as it heads northwest before taking a turn east once it hits Kentucky, moving all the way into Michigan and the Great Lakes by Monday morning.

When Gordon struck the Alabama/Mississippi border from the Gulf of Mexico, it was just below hurricane strength with sustained winds of 70 mph. The center of the storm has moved into central Mississippi, continuing northwest. Gordon will continue to weaken, but the risk of flooding will still exist as it moves inland.

Gordon has claimed one life in Florida: A child was killed when winds knocked a large tree limb onto her mobile home in West Pensacola Tuesday evening, according to Escambia County Emergency Management. Power in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi was lost to more than 40,000 homes and businesses, according to PowerOutage.us.

Although the outer bands of Gordon are only expected to drop an inch or less of rain on East Tennessee on Saturday, UT and ETSU fans watching the game that evening can expect a 50 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms