Tropical Storm Cindy neared the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Cindy was located at latitude 28.6\u00b0N and longitude 93.4\u00b0W which put it about 95 miles (150 km) south-southeast of Port Arthur, Texas.\u00a0 Cindy was moving toward the north-northwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 992 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from San Luis Pass, Texas to Grand Isle, Louisiana.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Cindy exhibits a hybrid structure in which a broad surface low pressure system is interacting with an upper low centered near the Upper Texas coast.\u00a0 There is a distinct center of low pressure at the surface.\u00a0 A band of showers and thunderstorms is northwest of the surface center.\u00a0 Drier air in the middle and upper levels wraps around the southern and eastern sides of the center and there are no thunderstorms in those quadrants of the core of Tropical Storm Cindy.\u00a0 A broad flow of moisture is producing bands of showers and thunderstorms in the outer portions of the eastern and northern sides of the circulation.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Cindy is moving around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system centered over the Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The subtropical high is steering Cindy toward the north-northwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Cindy will make landfall near the border between Texas and Louisiana on Thursday.\u00a0 Cindy will turn toward the north and then the tropical storm will move northeastward on Friday.<\/p>\n
Some locations will experience prolonged periods of rainfall and fresh water flooding will be possible in those area.\u00a0 There could also be a storm surge of 3 to 6 feet (1 to 3 meters) near where the center makes landfall.\u00a0 A few tornadoes could be spun up as rainbands move over the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Cindy neared the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday evening.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Storm Cindy was located at latitude 28.6\u00b0N and longitude 93.4\u00b0W which put it about 95 miles (150 km) south-southeast of Port Arthur, Texas.\u00a0 Cindy was moving toward the north-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":[387,386,384,51,98,38,717,493,117,112,715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116"}],"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=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}