Satellite Sees Tropical Storm Norbert Form off Mexico's West Coast

The Eastern Pacific Ocean continues to generate tropical cyclones much faster than the tropical Atlantic as NOAA's GOES-West satellite caught the birth of Tropical Storm Norbert on September 2. The Atlantic is only on its fourth tropical storm with the formation of Dolly today in the Gulf of Mexico.

This GOES-West satellite image of Tropical Storm Norbert was taken at 8 a.m. EDT on September 2 and showed some bands of thunderstorms had formed south of the center of circulation, and around the center.

Image Credit: 

NASA/NOAA GOES Project

A visible satellite image of newborn Tropical Storm Norbert was created from NOAA's GOES-West satellite data at the NASA/NOAA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The GOES-West image from 8 a.m. EDT on September 2 showed some bands of thunderstorms had formed around the center and south of the center of circulation.  The storm is currently being affected my moderate vertical wind shear from the northeast, which is pushing some of the clouds and showers to the southwest of the center.

Tropical Storm Norbert was born on Tuesday, September 2 at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC), according to satellite imagery and forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC). At that time, Norbert's maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph (65 kph) and some strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, according to the NHC. Norbert's center was located near latitude 17.5 north and longitude 106.5 west, about 180 miles (285 km) southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. It was moving to the north-northeast at 14 mph (22 kph) and is expected to turn to the north before curving to the west-northwest over the next day. Norbert is expected to remain offshore of southwestern Mexico.

Forecaster Blake at the NHC noted that the environment near Norbert seems mostly favorable for strengthening during the next few days with the cyclone forecast over warm waters with moderate (wind) shear. 

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