Tropical Cyclone Kelvin developed near the coast of Western Australia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Kelvin was located at latitude 19.2\u00b0S and longitude 120.9\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) north-northeast of Wallal Downs, Australia.\u00a0 Kelvin was moving toward the east at 4 m.p.h. (6 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.\u00a0 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a Warning for the portion of the coast from Broome to Pardoo Roadhouse and the Warning extended inland to include Telfer.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Low meandered near the coast of Western Australia during the past several days.\u00a0 The Tropical Low moved off the coast and strengthened into Tropical Cyclone Kelvin on Saturday.\u00a0 The circulation of Kelvin is small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extend out about 60 miles (95 km) from the center of circulation.\u00a0 Even though it is small, the circulation of Tropical Cyclone Kelvin is well organized.\u00a0 There is a distinct low level center of circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms are occurring near the center of circulation.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms are revolving around the core of Tropical Cyclone Kelvin.\u00a0 The storms in the core are generating upper level divergence which is pumping away mass.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Kelvin will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next few hours.\u00a0 Kelvin will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It is moving near the southwestern end of an upper level ridge and the upper level winds are weak.\u00a0 There is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The only factor inhibiting intensification is the proximity to the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Kelvin is likely to intensify until it makes landfall on the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 Kelvin should gradually weaken when it moves inland.<\/p>\n
The upper level ridge is steering Tropical Cyclone Kelvin slowly toward the east.\u00a0 That general motion is forecast to continue for several more hours.\u00a0 Kelvin is likely to move more toward the southeast when it nears the coast.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Kelvin could make landfall on the coast of Western Australia between Bidyadanga and Wallal Downs within the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Kelvin will bring gusty winds to the coast, but locally heavy rain and flooding are greater risks.\u00a0 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has issued Flood Warnings for the North Kimberly District and the West Kimberly District,\u00a0 Flood Watches have been issued for the Kimberly and North Pilbara District catchments.\u00a0 An Initial Flood Warning has been issued for the Sandy Desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Kelvin developed near the coast of Western Australia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Kelvin was located at latitude 19.2\u00b0S and longitude 120.9\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) north-northeast of Wallal Downs, Australia.\u00a0 Kelvin was moving toward the east at 4 m.p.h. (6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[639,78,960,640,959,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561"}],"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=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}