Tropical Depression Three formed off the coast of the Southeast U.S. on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Depression Three was located at latitude 30.8\u00b0N and longitude 79.0\u00b0W which put the center about 150 miles (240 km) south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 The tropical depression was moving toward the north at 2 m.p.h. (3 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 1012 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for the portion of the coast from Edisto Beach to Little River Inlet, South Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n A low pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean off the Southeast U.S. coast strengthened on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 Based on satellite images and data collected by a U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft, the U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Depression Three.<\/p>\n More thunderstorms formed near the center of Tropical Depression Three.\u00a0 Thunderstorms also developed in bands in the northern and eastern parts of the tropical depression.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation began to generate upper level divergence that pumped mass away to the north and east of the tropical depression.<\/p>\n Tropical Depression Three will move through an environment that will be somewhat favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Three will move over water where where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the eastern side of an upper level trough over the southeastern U.S.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of the tropical depression.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will inhibit intensification, but the shear will not be enough to prevent intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Depression Three is likely to intensify to a tropical storm during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n The upper level trough over the Southeastern U.S. will steer Tropical Depression Three toward the north-northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Depression Three will move toward the coast of South Carolina.\u00a0 It could make landfall early on Sunday.<\/p>\n Tropical Depression Three is likely to strengthen to a tropical storm before it makes landfall.\u00a0 It will bring winds and locally heavy rain.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Depression Three formed off the coast of the Southeast U.S. on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Depression Three was located at latitude 30.8\u00b0N and longitude 79.0\u00b0W which put the center about 150 miles (240 km) south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 The tropical depression was moving toward the […]<\/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":[387,386,813,1245,2529,99,1071],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561"}],"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=22561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22562,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22561\/revisions\/22562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}