A large area of low pressure east of Vietnam developed enough organization on Sunday to be classified as Tropical Storm Vamco.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Vamco was located at latitude 14.8\u00b0N and longitude 110.0\u00b0E which put it about 160 miles (260 km) east-southeast of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Vamco was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
Although there is a large area of low pressure, the circulation around Tropical Storm Vamco is not well organized.\u00a0 Most of the thunderstorms are located in a large rainband about 100 miles (160 km) from the center of circulation that wraps around the northern and western parts of the storm.\u00a0 There are not many thunderstorms located near the center of the circulation.\u00a0 Vamco is located over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, an upper level ridge is generating northeasterly winds over the top of the storm and the vertical wind shear is inhibiting development.\u00a0 Some intensification is possible in the short term, but the lack of a well formed inner core and proximity to land will limit strengthening.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge north of Vamco is steering the tropical storm toward the west and that steering pattern is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Vamco will reach the central coast of Vietnam in about 18 hours.\u00a0 The primary impacts will be locally heavy rainfall and the potential for flooding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A large area of low pressure east of Vietnam developed enough organization on Sunday to be classified as Tropical Storm Vamco.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Vamco was located at latitude 14.8\u00b0N and longitude 110.0\u00b0E which put it about 160 miles (260 km) east-southeast of Da Nang, Vietnam.\u00a0 Vamco […]<\/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":[176,173,65,174,175,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567"}],"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=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}