A strengthening Tropical Storm Hanna prompted the issuance of a Hurricane Warning for a portion of the coast of Texas on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Hanna was located at latitude 27.3\u00b0N and longitude 94.3\u00b0W which put it about 195 miles (310 km) east of Corpus Christi, Texas.\u00a0 Hanna was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 999 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning was in effect for the portion of the Texas coast from Baffin Bay to Mesquite Bay.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for the portions of the coast from the Mouth of the Rio Grande River to Baffin Bay and from Mesquite Bay to San Luis Pass, Texas.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hanna exhibited much more organization on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 A primary rainband wrapped around the southern and eastern sides of the center of Hanna.\u00a0 The northern end of the rainband appeared to be wrapping around the rest of the center of circulation and an eye seemed to be forming.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of Tropical Storm Hanna.\u00a0 Storms near the center were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical storm.\u00a0 The removal of mass was allowing the surface pressure to decrease.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 60 miles (95 km) from the center for circulation.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hanna will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 18 hours.\u00a0 Hanna will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Hanna will continue to intensify.\u00a0 If an eye and eyewall form completely, then Hanna could strengthen rapidly during the 6 to 12 hours prior to landfall.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Hanna is very likely to intensify into a hurricane.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hanna will move south of a high pressure system that stretches across the southern U.S.\u00a0 The high will steer Hanna toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Hanna will reach the coast of Texas near Corpus Christi during the middle of the day on Saturday.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Hanna is very likely to be a hurricane when it makes landfall.\u00a0 It will bring strong winds to the portion of the coast near where the eye makes landfall.\u00a0 Strong winds blowing water toward the coast could create a storm surge of 6 to 8 feet (2 to 3 meters) near and to the north of where the eye makes landfall.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, a trade wind surge hit Tropical Storm Gonzalo from the northeast.\u00a0 The surge caused increased low level wind shear and it brought drier air.\u00a0 The increased shear and drier air caused Gonzalo to weaken.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Gonzalo was located at latitude 10.0\u00b0N and 55.6\u00b0W which put it about 390 miles (625 km) east of the southern Windward Islands.\u00a0 Gonzalo was moving toward the west at 18 m.p.h. (30 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 1008 mb.<\/p>\n Tropical Storm Warnings were in effect for Barbados, Tobago, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A strengthening Tropical Storm Hanna prompted the issuance of a Hurricane Warning for a portion of the coast of Texas on Friday afternoon.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Storm Hanna was located at latitude 27.3\u00b0N and longitude 94.3\u00b0W which put it about 195 miles (310 km) east of Corpus Christi, […]<\/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":[483,172,160,171,535,789,2082,712,2085,780,112,711,2081,2084,137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861"}],"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=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9862,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions\/9862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}