Tropical Storm Edouard was strengthening on Tuesday morning as it near the northwest Gulf Coast.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Edouard was located at latitude 29.4\u00b0N and longitude 93.3\u00b0W which put the center about 30 miles (50 km) south of Cameron, Louisiana.\u00a0 Edouard was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 is in effect for the portion of the coast from Port Bolivar, Texas to the Vermilion\/Iberia Parish Line in Louisiana.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A Hurricane Watch is in effect for the portion of the coast from High Island, Texas to Cameron, Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n An U.S. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter reconnaissance plane found that Tropical Storm Edouard was strengthening on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the southern and eastern sides of the center of Edouard’s circulation.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Edouard.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Edouard generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n The circulation around Tropical Storm Edouard was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 25 miles (40 km) from the center of Edouard’s circulation.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Edouard will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next few hours.\u00a0 Edouard will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperatures are near 30\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 Edouard is likely to continue to intensify until it makes landfall in a few hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Edouard will move around the southwestern part of a high pressure system that is over the Southeast U.S.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Edouard toward the northwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Edouard will make landfall on the northwest Gulf Coast near the border between Texas and Louisiana in a few hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Edouard will make landfall on the coast near the border between Texas and Louisiana in a few hours.\u00a0\u00a0 Edouard bring strong winds and locally heavy rain.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n A Flood Watch is in effect for southeast Texas including the area around Houston.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Edouard could also cause a storm surge of up to 6 feet (2 meters) along a portion of the coast near the border between Texas and Louisiana.<\/p>\n A Storm Surge Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from High Island, Texas to the Vermilion\/Cameron Parish Line in Louisiana.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Storm Edouard was strengthening on Tuesday morning as it near the northwest Gulf Coast.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Edouard was located at latitude 29.4\u00b0N and longitude 93.3\u00b0W which put the center about 30 miles (50 km) south of Cameron, Louisiana.\u00a0 Edouard was moving toward the northwest at […]<\/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":[446,447,2175,2067,2236,791,4217,113,2169,112,2066,4181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111"}],"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=25111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25112,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions\/25112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}