Tropical Storm Sally strengthened on Sunday morning and a Hurricane Warning included the city of New Orleans.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Sally was located at latitude 27.5\u00b0N and longitude 84.9\u00b0W which put it about 280 miles (450 km) east-southeast of the Mouth of the Mississippi River.\u00a0 Sally was moving toward the west-northwest at 12 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Morgan City, Louisiana to Ocean Springs, Mississippi including New Orleans, Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>A Hurricane Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Intracoastal City to Morgan City, Louisiana.\u00a0 A Hurricane Watch was also in effect for the portion of the coast from Ocean Springs, Mississippi to the Alabama\/Florida border.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Ocean Springs, Mississippi to Indian Pass, Florida.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>A Tropical Storm Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Indian Pass to Ochlockonee River, Florida.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Data from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter plane indicated that Tropical Storm Sally was strengthening on Sunday morning.\u00a0 Even though Tropical Storm Sally was strengthening, the distribution of thunderstorms was asymmetrical.\u00a0 The strongest thunderstorms were occurring around the center of circulation and in bands in the eastern side of Sally.\u00a0 Bands in the western half of the circulation still consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Tropical Storm Sally generated upper level divergence which pumped mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 90 miles (145 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Sally will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 Sally will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under an upper level ridge where the winds are weak.\u00a0 There will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Sally is likely to strengthen into a hurricane during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Sally could intensify more rapidly once an inner core with an eye and an eyewall forms.\u00a0 There is a chance that it could strengthen into a major hurricane.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Sally will move around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Sally toward the west-northwest during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Sally could approach southeastern Louisiana on Monday night.\u00a0 Sally will move more toward the north and it could slow down when it reaches the western end of the high.\u00a0 Sally will have the potential to cause serious damage.\u00a0 It could cause a storm surge of 9 to 12 feet (3 to 4 meters).\u00a0 If Sally moves slowly, it will drop heavy rain that will cause flash floods.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Hurricane Paulette continued to move toward Bermuda, Tropical Depression Rene weakened and Tropical Depression Twenty strengthened.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Hurricane Paulette was located at latitude 29.9\u00b0N and longitude 61.9\u00b0W which put it about 240 miles (385 km) southeast of Bermuda.\u00a0 Paulette was moving toward the northwest at 14 m.p.h. (22 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 976 mb.\u00a0 A Hurricane Warning was in effect for Bermuda.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression Rene was located at latitude 26.8\u00b0N and longitude 47.6\u00b0W which put it about 1150 miles (1855 km) northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Rene was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1011 mb.<\/p>\n At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Depression Twenty was located at latitude 12.3\u00b0N and longitude 36.4\u00b0W which put it about 1680 miles (2705 km) east of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 The depression was moving toward the west-northwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Sally strengthened on Sunday morning and a Hurricane Warning included the city of New Orleans.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Sally was located at latitude 27.5\u00b0N and longitude 84.9\u00b0W which put it about 280 miles (450 km) east-southeast of the Mouth of the Mississippi River.\u00a0 Sally was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[840,865,877,1822,841,866,878,1823,384,31,51,2210,1213,113,493,716,2201,2203,2207,112,2204,2208,2206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10346,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}