Tropical Storm Namtheun brought wind and rain to southwestern Kyushu on Saturday as the center moved just west of the coast.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Namtheun was located at latitude 31.4\u00b0N and longitude 129.6\u00b0E which put it about 85 miles (135 km) south of Nagasaki, Japan.\u00a0 Namtheun was moving toward the north-northwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Namtheun has a small, but well organized circulation.\u00a0 There is the remnant of the eye that existed when Namtheun was a typhoon.\u00a0 A broken ring of thunderstorms surrounds the remnant eye.\u00a0 Several spiral rainbands are rotating around just outside the small core of Namtheun.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extend out about 60 miles (95 km) from the center of circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Namtheun is moving through an environment that is marginally favorable for a tropical storm.\u00a0 It is moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 A large upper level trough is producing southerly winds which are blowing across the top of Tropical Storm Namtheun.\u00a0 Those winds are generating moderate vertical wind shear and they are inhibiting the upper level divergence to the south of the tropical storm.\u00a0 The marginally favorable environment could allow Tropical Storm Namtheun to maintain its intensity for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 After that time it will move over cooler SSTs and start to weaken faster.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough is steering Tropical Storm Namtheun toward the north and that general motion is expected to continue for another 12 hours or so.\u00a0 After that time, southwesterly winds are expected to turn Tropical Storm Namtheun more toward the northeast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Namtheun will move close to Nagasaki, Fukuoka, Kitakyushu and the southwestern portion of Honshu.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Namtheun’s small size should keep the wind damage minimal.\u00a0 It could cause locally heavy rainfall and the potential for flooding, but the areal extent of any floods should be limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Namtheun brought wind and rain to southwestern Kyushu on Saturday as the center moved just west of the coast.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Namtheun was located at latitude 31.4\u00b0N and longitude 129.6\u00b0E which put it about 85 miles (135 km) south of Nagasaki, Japan.\u00a0 Namtheun was […]<\/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":[501,461,44,133,508,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942"}],"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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}