A distinct center of circulation developed within a cluster of thunderstorms over the central Philippines on Thursday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Tokage.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Tokage was located at latitude 11.7\u00b0N and longitude 122.0\u00b0E which put it near the northwestern tip of Panay Island and about 235 miles (380 km) south-southeast of Manila, Philippines.\u00a0 Tokage was moving toward the west-northwest at 13 m.p.h. (20 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 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
The core of the circulation of Tropical Storm Tokage is still organizing.\u00a0 An inner band of thunderstorms wraps around the western and southern sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0 An outer rainband wraps around the northern side of the circulation from the northeastern to the southwestern quadrants.\u00a0 Thunderstorms near the core of Tokage are generating upper level divergence which is pumping mass away to the west and north of the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Tokage will be moving through an environment that is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Tokage will be moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge east of Tokage is producing southeasterly winds which are blowing against the tropical storm.\u00a0 Although those winds are restricting upper level divergence on the southeast side of Tokage, the overall effect of the vertical wind shear is minor.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Tokage is likely to intensify during the next day or two and it could reach typhoon intensity.<\/p>\n
Tokage is moving around the southwestern portion of a subtropical ridge which is steering the tropical storm to the west-northwest.\u00a0 That general motion is expected to continue for another 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0\u00a0 After that time Tropical Storm Tokage will reach the western end of the subtropical ridge and it will begin to move toward the north.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Tokage will pass near Mindoro Island and the Calamian Group during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 It will bring gusty winds and heavy rain to those islands.\u00a0 Tokage is likely to pass west of Luzon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A distinct center of circulation developed within a cluster of thunderstorms over the central Philippines on Thursday and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Tokage.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Tokage was located at latitude 11.7\u00b0N and longitude 122.0\u00b0E which put it near the northwestern […]<\/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":[582,43,44,42,96,581,63,583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436"}],"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=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}