Tropical Cyclone Mitchell strengthened near the coast of Western Australia on Friday morning.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Mitchell was located at latitude 18.7\u00b0S and longitude 119.4\u00b0E which put the center about 145 miles (235 km) north-northeast of Port Hedland, Australia.\u00a0 Mitchell was moving toward the west-southwest at 12 m.p.h. (19 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 994 mb.<\/p>\n
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a Warning that was in effect for the portion of the coast from De Grey to Mardie.\u00a0 The Warning included Port Hedland, Karratha, and Dampier.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Onslow to Coral Bay.\u00a0 The Watch included Exmouth.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A Tropical Low near the coast of Western Australia strengthened on Friday morning and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology designated it as Tropical Cyclone Mitchell.<\/p>\n The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Mitchell was strengthening on Friday morning.\u00a0 New thunderstorms continued to develop near the center of Mitchell’s circulation.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were also revolving around the center of Tropical Cyclone Mitchell.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Mitchell generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Mitchell was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 65 miles (105 km) from the center of Mitchell’s circulation.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Mitchell will move through an environment very favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Mitchell will then move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 29\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 Cyclone Mitchell will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Mitchell could intensify rapidly to the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Mitchell will move around the northwestern part of a high pressure system that is over Australia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Mitchell toward the west-southwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone will be north of Dampier in 24 hours.<\/p>\n The strongest winds in Tropical Cyclone Mitchell will remain north of the coast of Western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 Bands in the southern half of Mitchell’s circulation could bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n Flood Watches are in effect for the Gascoyne River, the Ashburton River, the Fortescue River, the Fitzroy River, and the Pilbara Coastal Rivers.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Cyclone Mitchell strengthened near the coast of Western Australia on Friday morning.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Mitchell was located at latitude 18.7\u00b0S and longitude 119.4\u00b0E which put the center about 145 miles (235 km) north-northeast of Port Hedland, Australia.\u00a0 Mitchell was moving toward the west-southwest at 12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[357,3852,3569,1928,1896,2462,4103,3838,3855,1467,1934,4102,1927,1935,979,358,4101,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003"}],"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=24003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24004,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions\/24004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}