Tropical Depression Seventeen developed over the western Gulf of Mexico on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday morning the center of Tropical Depression Seventeen was located at latitude 25.6\u00b0N and longitude 94.4\u00b0W which put it about 320 miles (515 km) south-southwest of Lake Charles, Louisiana.\u00a0 It was moving toward the north at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1006 mb.<\/p>\n
More thunderstorms developed near the center of a low pressure system over the western Gulf of Mexico on Friday morning and the National Hurricane Center designated the system as Tropical Depression Seventeen.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were also developing around the depression.\u00a0 The strongest rainbands were in the eastern half of the circulation.\u00a0 Bands in the western half of the circulation consisted of more showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Storms near the center were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away to the northeast of the depression.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Seventeen is likely to strengthen during the next 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 The depression will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level trough over the south central U.S. and Mexico will produce southwesterly winds which will blow toward the top of the depression.\u00a0 Those winds will produce moderate vertical wind shear, which will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 However, the shear will not be strong enough to prevent intensification while the depression is over the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 The wind shear will cause the depression to start a transition to an extratropical cyclone.\u00a0 A cold front will move toward the depression from the northwest and the depression could merge with the front during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n
The upper level trough will steer the depression toward the north during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the depression will make landfall on the coast of Louisiana during Friday night.\u00a0 The depression could be a tropical storm when it makes landfall.\u00a0 It will bring gusty winds to coastal Louisiana.\u00a0 The depression is likely to drop heavy rain over parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and eastern Arkansas.\u00a0 The rain could cause floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Seventeen developed over the western Gulf of Mexico on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Friday morning the center of Tropical Depression Seventeen was located at latitude 25.6\u00b0N and longitude 94.4\u00b0W which put it about 320 miles (515 km) south-southwest of Lake Charles, Louisiana.\u00a0 It was moving toward the north at 16 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[840,841,115,1775,717,493,1774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712"}],"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=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8713,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions\/8713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}