Tropical Storm Gabrielle formed over the Atlantic Ocean east of the Leeward Islands on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Gabrielle was located at latitude 17.5\u00b0N and longitude 46.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1085 miles (1745 km) east of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Gabrielle was moving toward the north-northwest at 22 m.p.h. (35 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
A low pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean east of the Northern Leeward Islands strengthened on Tuesday morning and the U.S. National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Storm Gabrielle.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Tropical Storm Gabrielle was poorly organized on Thursday morning.\u00a0 Thunderstorms were occurring in bands east of the center of Gabrielle’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the western part of Tropical Storm Gabrielle consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 An upper level low northeast of the Leeward Islands was producing strong southwesterly winds that were blowing toward the top of Gabrielle’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds were causing strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The strong vertical wind shear was causing the asymmetrical distribution of thunderstorms in Tropical Storm Gabrielle.<\/p>\n
The distribution of wind speeds in Tropical Storm Gabrielle was also asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 175 miles (280 km) in the eastern side of Gabrielle’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the western side of Tropical Storm Gabrielle were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gabrielle will move through an environment that will be only marginally favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Gabrielle will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0\u00a0 However, the upper level low that is northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands will continue to cause strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The strong vertical wind shear will prevent significant intensification during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gabrielle will move around the southwestern part of a subtropical high pressure system over the eastern Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Gabrielle toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Gabrielle will pass northeast of the Leeward Islands later this week.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Storm Gabrielle formed over the Atlantic Ocean east of the Leeward Islands on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Gabrielle was located at latitude 17.5\u00b0N and longitude 46.6\u00b0W which put the center about 1085 miles (1745 km) east of the Northern Leeward Islands.\u00a0 Gabrielle was moving toward […]<\/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":[483,160,1658,2684,1657],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115"}],"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=23115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23116,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23115\/revisions\/23116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}