Hurricane Lala rapidly intensified to a major hurricane west of Hawaii on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Hurricane Lala was located at latitude 20.7\u00b0N and longitude 168.9\u00b0W which put the center about 495 miles (795 km) southeast of Lisianski Island.\u00a0 Lala was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 125 m.p.h. (200 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 150 m.p.h. (240 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 953 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument from Lisianski Island to Maro Reef<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument from Maro Reef to French Frigate Shoals<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Hurricane Lala rapidly intensified to a major hurricane west of Hawaii on Tuesday.\u00a0 A circular eye was present at the center of Lala’s circulation.\u00a0 The eye was surrounded by a ring of thunderstorms and the strongest winds were occurring in that ring of storms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the core of Hurricane Lala.\u00a0 Storms near the core of Lala generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the hurricane.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n The circulation around Hurricane Lala became more symmetrical when Lala rapidly intensified on Tuesday.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of Lala\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 105 miles (165 km) from the center of Hurricane Lala.<\/p>\n The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Hurricane Lala is 23.6.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 8.8 and the Hurricane Wind intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 32.4.\u00a0 Hurricane Lala is similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Dennis when Dennis hit Northwest Florida in 2005.<\/p>\n Hurricane Lala will move through an environment that will become unfavorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Lala will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 27\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under the southern part of an upper level trough that is south of Aleutian Islands.\u00a0 The upper level trough will produce southwesterly winds that will blow toward the top of Lala’s circulation.\u00a0 Those winds will cause the vertical wind shear to increase on Wednesday.\u00a0 Hurricane Lala is likely to start to weaken during the next 24 hours when the vertical wind shear increases.<\/p>\n The upper level trough south of the Aleutian Islands will start to steer Hurricane Lala toward the north on Wednesday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Hurricane Lala will move toward the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.<\/p>\n Hurricane Lala will bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.\u00a0 The winds around Hurricane Lala will also cause high surf conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hurricane Lala rapidly intensified to a major hurricane west of Hawaii on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Hurricane Lala was located at latitude 20.7\u00b0N and longitude 168.9\u00b0W which put the center about 495 miles (795 km) southeast of Lisianski Island.\u00a0 Lala was moving toward the west-northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 […]<\/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":[309,310,4206,4201,650,4198,4204,4205,4207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24993"}],"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=24993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24994,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24993\/revisions\/24994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}