A large area of thunderstorms developed near the center of Tropical Depression 4 during during the overnight hours.\u00a0 An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter reconnaissance aircraft found sustained winds to tropical storm force and at 8:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the National Hurricane Center classified the system as Tropical Storm Danielle.<\/p>\n
At 8:00 a.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Storm Danielle was located at latitude 20.6\u00b0N and longitude 96.0\u00b0W which put it about 95 miles (150 km) east-southeast of Tuxpan, Mexico.\u00a0 Danielle was moving toward the west-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1008 mb.\u00a0 The government of Mexico has issued a Tropical Storm warning for the portion of the coast from Laguna Verde to Rio Panuco.<\/p>\n
The center of an upper level ridge moved near the center of Danielle on Sunday night, which caused the upper level winds to be weaker over the core of the circulation.\u00a0 As a result, a large area of thunderstorms was able to develop and persist around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Since Danielle was over water where the Sea Surface Temperature was near 30\u00b0C, the circulation was able to extract energy from the ocean and Danielle intensified into a tropical storm.<\/p>\n
The thunderstorms at the core of Danielle are generating upper level divergence that is pumping mass out in all direction.\u00a0 The pressure at the surface is likely to decrease which should produce an additional increase in the wind speed.\u00a0 Danielle will be over very warm water until it makes landfall on the coast of Mexico later today.\u00a0 It is likely to intensify further before it reaches the coast.<\/p>\n
An ridge of high pressure extends from the Atlantic Ocean into the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 The ridge is steering Danielle toward the west-northwest and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Danielle could be very near Tuxpan on the coast of Mexico in about 12 hours.\u00a0 Danielle could produce a storm surge of several feet along the coast.\u00a0 It could also cause some wind damage, although that should be minimal.\u00a0 The increase in thunderstorms near the center of circulation means that Danielle will produce locally heavy rain when it moves inland.\u00a0 The heavy rain will create the risk of flash floods and mudslides on steeper slopes.<\/p>\n
Danielle was designated a tropical storm on June 20, which makes it the fourth Atlantic tropical storm of 2016.\u00a0 June 20th is the earliest date on record on which the fourth Atlantic tropical storm has formed.\u00a0 The previous record was June 23, which was the date when Tropical Storm Debbie was named in 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 During the record setting year of 2005, the fourth Atlantic tropical storm was not named until July 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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