The potential risk posed by Tropical Storm Hone prompted the issuance of a Tropical Storm Warning for Hawaii County.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Hone was located at latitude 16.9\u00b0N and longitude 149.3\u00b0W which put the center about 425 miles (685 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hone was moving toward the west at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for Hawaii County (the Big Island).<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hone strengthened gradually on Friday.\u00a0 The low level circulation of Tropical Storm Hone was well developed and very symmetrical.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed in the inner end of a rainband that wrapped around the eastern side of the center of Hone’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Hone.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n Even though the low level circulation of Tropical Storm Hone was very symmetrical, the distribution of winds speeds was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 115 miles (185 km) in the northern side of Hone’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 60 miles in the southern side of Tropical Storm Hone.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hone will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Hone will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Hone is likely to intensify gradually during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hone will move around the southern side of a subtropical high pressure system over the Eastern North Pacific and Central Pacific.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Hone toward the west-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center Tropical Storm Hone will pass just south of Hawaii County (the Big Island) on Saturday night.<\/p>\n Even though the center of Tropical Storm Hone is likely to pass south of Hawaii, it could bring winds to tropical storm force to Hawaii County.\u00a0 Hone could also produce locally heavy rain.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Hurricane Gilma weakened gradually east of Hawaii.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Hurricane Gilma was located at latitude 17.5\u00b0N and longitude 128.4\u00b0W which put the center about 1750 miles (2820 km) east of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Gilma was moving toward the west at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 970 mb.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The potential risk posed by Tropical Storm Hone prompted the issuance of a Tropical Storm Warning for Hawaii County.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Hone was located at latitude 16.9\u00b0N and longitude 149.3\u00b0W which put the center about 425 miles (685 km) east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.\u00a0 Hone was moving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[309,429,310,431,1108,23,1124,3686,3684,3685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928"}],"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=20928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20929,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20928\/revisions\/20929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}