Hurricane Isaias is headed for a Gulf Coast landfall Friday night with life-threatening storm surge, rainfall flooding and high winds. It will then spread its heavy rain and wind inland over the Southeast this weekend. Preparations to protect life and property from damaging winds and storm surge near the northern Gulf Coast should be finished by tonight. Isaias is centered in the Gulf about 245 miles south of Pensacola. The storm is moving to the north-northeast at 15 mph. It’s expected to strengthen more this morning and then will take a more northerly track to landfall. …These warnings also extend to much of inland southern Alabama, parts of southeast Mississippi, the rest of the Florida Panhandle not in hurricane alerts and extreme southwestern Georgia (shaded in red on the map).