Tropical Storm Mindy forms in the Gulf of Mexico

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

Tropical Storm Mindy formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday as the 13th named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season.

Mindy was expected to cross the coastline of the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday night, and then move off the coast of the southeastern United States into the western Atlantic Ocean by Thursday.

It was producing maximum sustained winds of nearly 40 miles per hour, with some stronger gusts, the National Weather Service said. Total rainfall of two to four inches was expected, with six inches possible across the Florida Panhandle into southern portions of Georgia and South Carolina through Thursday morning, the Weather Service said.

Some flooding was possible, as were isolated tornadoes over the Florida Panhandle.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/article/tropical-storm-mindy-hurricane.html

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[onethatcares]

1. that's a wierd track

don't think I've seen that one in the past 35 years of living in Floriduh.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Chasing after Larry!

instead of this guy -

[texasfiddler]

6. Nanoo Nanoo!!!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Yup

Although if another one suddenly forms, we might have "Nicky Nicky" (for "Nicholas"... I know... corny )

[groundloop]

2. Hmmmm.... just a couple of days ago NWS was saying development was unlikely

Water temperatures in the gulf must be higher than expected (who'd have guessed?).

[ancianita]

4. Nothing's developing this close to land -- that's Mindy. Larry is another matter.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Nothing has really passed through there since Ida

so the water where it finally developed wasn't really churned up. Plus it literally went from a disturbance with a 60% chance right to a tropical storm (between their 2 pm and 5 pm ET updates) and that happened right in the shallow/hotter water near the coast.

[csziggy]

8. Mindy developed much farther east than Ida

So the waters where this tropical storm built up have not been hugely disturbed.

At 1 AM, the center of circulation was south east of my location. We got persistent rain all day and some gusts tonight. One short blip in the power and that seems to have been it. The weather service was warning about flooding along some of the rivers but I don't know if that happened.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Exactly

That's why it was able to go from 60% chance to instant TS (apparently blowing through the TD stage fairly rapidly).

NHC had been watching it as a disturbance for quite awhile before it finally started moving. There's another disturbance off the Yucatan at the moment but will see if that develops or dissipates.