Former Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven developed a distinct center of circulation on Sunday morning and the National Hurricane Center upgraded the system to Tropical Storm Gordon.\u00a0 At 8:30 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Gordon was located at latitude 25.1\u00b0N and longitude 80.6\u00b0W which put it about 10 miles (15 km) west of Key Largo, Florida.\u00a0 Gordon was moving toward the west-northwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 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 1009 mb.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from Golden Beach to Bonita Beach, Florida.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the Florida Keys from Craig Key to Ocean Reef including Florida bay.\u00a0 A Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for the portion of the coast from the Alabama-Florida border to Morgan City, Louisiana including Lake Pontchartrain.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Storm Gordon became much better organized during the past 12 hours.\u00a0 A distinct low level center of circulation formed and many more thunderstorms developed.\u00a0 A C-MAN station on Fowey Rock, Florida reported sustained winds of 49 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) supporting the designation as a tropical storm.\u00a0 The circulation of Tropical Storm Gordon was still organizing.\u00a0 More thunderstorms were developing in bands northeast of the center of circulation than in other parts of the tropical storm.\u00a0 Those storms were beginning to generate upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the core of Gordon.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gordon will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 Gordon will be moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will be moving through a region where the upper level winds will be weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Gordon will continue to intensify and it could intensify more rapidly once the inner core becomes better organized.\u00a0 There is a chance that Gordon could strengthen into a hurricane before it reaches the north coast of the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Gordon will move around the west end of a subtropical high pressure system over the western Atlantic Ocean.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Gordon in\u00a0 a general west-northwesterly direction.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Gordon will move away from South Florida later today.\u00a0 Gordon could approach the north coast of the Gulf of Mexico late on Tuesday.\u00a0 Locally heavy rain could cause floods in South Florida.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Gordon could produce a storm surge of 6 to 9 feet (2 to 3 meters) along parts of the northern Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven developed a distinct center of circulation on Sunday morning and the National Hurricane Center upgraded the system to Tropical Storm Gordon.\u00a0 At 8:30 a.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Storm Gordon was located at latitude 25.1\u00b0N and longitude 80.6\u00b0W which put it about 10 miles (15 km) west […]<\/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":[483,160,384,51,50,1218,1219,873,1213,113,869,493,837,1214,716,1215,1217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541"}],"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=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6542,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}