Tropical Depression Cristobal brought rain to the lower Mississippi River Valley on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Depression Cristobal was located at latitude 34.8\u00b0N and longitude 92.8\u00b0W which put it about 10 miles (15 km) west of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 Cristobal was moving toward the north-northwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 994 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Cristobal moved northward across Louisiana and Arkansas on Monday.\u00a0 Steadier rain fell in the northern part of the circulation around Cristobal.\u00a0 Diverging air from a surface high pressure system east of the Great Lakes converged with the circulation around the northern side of Tropical Depression Cristobal to produce rising motion.\u00a0 The rising motion produced the steadier rain.\u00a0 Thunderstorms in bands in the southern and eastern parts of Cristobal dropped locally heavy rain over parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.\u00a0 Jackson, Mississippi received 2.49 inches (6.3 cm) of rain.\u00a0 Little Rock, Arkansas received 1.49 inches (3.8 cm) of rain.<\/p>\n
Tropical Depression Cristobal will move around the western side of a high pressure system.\u00a0 The high will steer Cristobal toward the north during the next several days.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Depression Cristobal retained tropical characteristics on Monday night.\u00a0 Radiosonde data from Little Rock and Jackson, Mississippi showed that there was still a warm core in the middle troposphere.\u00a0 Cristobal is forecast to make a gradual transition to an extratropical cyclone during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 The circulation could strengthen during the extratropical transition and a Gale Warning has been issued for Lake Michigan.\u00a0 Flood Watches were also in effect for locations from Mississippi to Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Depression Cristobal brought rain to the lower Mississippi River Valley on Monday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Monday the center of Tropical Depression Cristobal was located at latitude 34.8\u00b0N and longitude 92.8\u00b0W which put it about 10 miles (15 km) west of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 Cristobal was moving toward the north-northwest at 17 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":[387,386,115,2045,2052,2054,2053,493,116,2048],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680"}],"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=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}