Tropical Storm Nangka brought wind and rain to Hainan Island on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Nangka was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0N and longitude 110.0\u00b0E which put it about 70 miles south-southwest of Haikou, China.\u00a0 Nangka was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 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 987 mb.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Storm Nangka moved directly across Hainan Island on Tuesday.\u00a0 Nangka strengthened before it made landfall on the east coast of Hainan.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 200 miles (320 km) from the center of Tropical Storm Nangka.\u00a0 So, Nangka may have produced tropical storm force winds over much of Hainan.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the center of circulation and in bands revolving around the center were dropping heavy rain over parts of Hainan.\u00a0 The heavy rain was likely to cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nangka will weaken while it moves across Hainan.\u00a0 Nangka will move into an environment favorable for intensification for about 12 hours when it moves west of Hainan Island.\u00a0 Nangka will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level ridge over eastern Asia.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds which will blow toward the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause some vertical wind shear, but the shear will not be strong enough to prevent Tropical Storm Nangka from strengthening again.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Nangka will move south of a high pressure system over eastern Asia.\u00a0 The high will steer Nangka toward the west during the next 48 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nangka will move west of Hainan Island in about 6 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Nangka will make landfall on the northern coast of Vietnam southeast of Hanoi in about 18 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Nangka will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to northern Vietnam.\u00a0 Heavy rain will cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Nangka brought wind and rain to Hainan Island on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Nangka was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0N and longitude 110.0\u00b0E which put it about 70 miles south-southwest of Haikou, China.\u00a0 Nangka was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[166,2280,1536,1563,2278,2277,63,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616"}],"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=10616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10617,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10616\/revisions\/10617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}