A distinct center of circulation formed within an area of thunderstorms south-southeast of Okinawa on Thursday night and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Prapiroon.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Prapiroon was located at latitude 20.0\u00b0N and longitude 130.2\u00b0E which put it about 500 miles (800 km) south-southeast of Okinawa.\u00a0 Prapiroon was moving toward the west at 7 m.p.h. (11 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 998 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Prapiroon was still organizing.\u00a0 More thunderstorms were forming close to the center of circulation.\u00a0 There were more thunderstorms west of the center than there were east of the center.\u00a0 Several bands of showers and thunderstorms in the outer part of the circulation were revolving around the core of Tropical Storm Prapiroon.\u00a0 The storms in the core were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Prapiroon formed beneath an upper level ridge that developed between an upper level low northwest of the Philippines and a much larger upper low east of the Marianas.\u00a0 The winds in the upper ridge will be weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Prapiroon will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Prapiroon will move through an environment very favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Prapiroon will strengthen and it could intensify rapidly once the inner core organizes.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Prapiroon could strengthen into a typhoon in 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Prapiroon was moving around the southwestern part of a subtropical ridge which was steering the tropical storm toward the west.\u00a0 Prapiroon will turn toward the north in 12 to 24 hours when it reaches the western end of the ridge.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Prapiroon could approach Okinawa in about 36 hours.\u00a0 Prapiroon could be a typhoon when it nears Okinawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A distinct center of circulation formed within an area of thunderstorms south-southeast of Okinawa on Thursday night and the Japan Meteorological Agency designated the system as Tropical Storm Prapiroon.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Storm Prapiroon was located at latitude 20.0\u00b0N and longitude 130.2\u00b0E which put it about 500 miles […]<\/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":[459,43,44,46,1055,130,42,96,816,1054,1056,460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087"}],"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=6087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6088,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions\/6088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}