GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall late Tuesday just west of the Alabama- Mississippi border.

The National Hurricane Center said early Wednesday that Gordon was weakening as it moves inland across Mississippi and Louisiana into Arkansas through Thursday after striking the coast at 70 mph, just shy of hurricane strength. The remnants will likely cause flash flooding across parts of seven states — as far north as Iowa — in coming days.

Gordon’s tight core was about 20 miles northwest of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with maximum sustained winds down to 40 mph. But it was going out swinging: Forecasters said radar spotted possible tornados spun off by the storm overnight in southern Alabama and the Florida panhandle, and more were possible through Wednesday night in Mississippi and western Alabama.

There were no immediate damage or injury reports, other than the tree that fell on the mobile home in Pensacola. The Escambia County Sheriff ’s office posted on its Facebook page that responding deputies discovered the deceased child, whose name and age was not released.