Former Tropical Storm Choi-wan strengthened to a typhoon over the Western North Pacific Ocean west of the Northern Marianas on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Choi-wan was located at latitude 18.0\u00b0N and longitude 144.7\u00b0E which put the center about 80 miles (130 km) west of Alamagan.\u00a0 Choi-wan was moving toward the north at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 981 mb.<\/p>\n
A Typhoon Warning is in effect for Agrihan and Pagan.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Tinian, Saipan, and Alamagan.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n A Typhoon Watch is in effect for Alamagan.<\/span><\/p>\n Former Tropical Storm Choi-wan strengthened to a typhoon on Friday.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the center of Typhoon Choi-wan.\u00a0 Other bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Choi-wan’s circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the center of Choi-wan generated upper level divergence that pumped mass away from the typhoon.\u00a0 The removal of mass caused the surface pressure to decrease.<\/p>\n The distribution of wind speeds in Typhoon Choi-wan was asymmetrical.\u00a0 Winds to typhoon force extended out 110 miles (175 km) in the southern half of Choi-wan’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 50 miles (80 km) in the northern half of Typhoon Choi-wan.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 250 miles (400 km) in the southern side of Typhoon Choi-wan.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 175 miles (280 km) in the northern side of Choi-wan’s circulation.<\/p>\n Typhoon Choi-wan will move through an environment that will be favorable for intensification during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Choi-wan Choi-wan will 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 Typhoon Choi-wan will intensify during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 Choi-wan is likely to strengthen to the equivalent of a major hurricane during the weekend.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Choi-wan will move around the western end of a high pressure system that is over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Choi-wan toward the north during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Storm Choi-wan will move away from the Northern Marianas during the weekend.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Choi-wan will bring strong winds and heavy rain to Alamagan, Agrihan, Pagan, and Anataham.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause floods in some locations. Choi-wan could also bring gusty winds and heavy rain to Tinian and Saipan.\u00a0 Bands in the southern periphery of Typhoon Choi-wan could drop heavy rain over Guam and Rota.<\/p>\n Flood Watches are in effect for Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Tropical Storm Choi-wan strengthened to a typhoon over the Western North Pacific Ocean west of the Northern Marianas on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Typhoon Choi-wan was located at latitude 18.0\u00b0N and longitude 144.7\u00b0E which put the center about 80 miles (130 km) west of Alamagan.\u00a0 Choi-wan was moving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[563,179,1202,4243,2502,45,1173,104,105,106,4242,564],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25398"}],"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=25398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25399,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25398\/revisions\/25399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}