Tropical Storm Tokage Moves Across Philippines
By Drew Lerner
Kansas City, November 25 (World Weather Inc.) – Tropical Storm Tokage moved across the central Philippines Thursday and was expected to impact western parts of the archipelago today while drifting a little further away from land as it moves north northwesterly over open water in the South China Sea. The storm produced some flooding rainfall across the Visayan Islands late Wednesday and Thursday. Little damage to crops and property has likely occurred from the storm so far and little was expected other than local flooding.
At 0900 GMT today, the center of Tropical Storm Tokage was located near 11.7 north, 121.0 east moving westerly at 11 mph and producing a maximum sustained wind speed of 46 mph. The storm center was 194 miles south of Manila and tropical storm force wind was extending out 60 miles.
Tokage will turn to the northwest today and will partially parallel the west coast of Luzon Island, Philippines through the weekend. The storm will drift a little further to the west of land each day reducing some of the rainfall that is expected to linger through the northern islands into Sunday. There is some confusion about the storm’s ultimate movement, but mid-latitude frontal system moving southeast from China will likely add shear to the storm aloft and that should dissipate the system toward the early part of next week. The frontal boundary may pull some of the storm’s remnant energy back across northern Luzon Island and there is some potential that a part of the storm will also drift west toward Vietnam.
Rainfall in the northern Philippines through the weekend will range from 3.00 to 8.00 inches resulting in some local flooding. However, the storm will be far enough from land to reduce the potential for much damage. The rain will occur over multiple days which should allow sufficient time for runoff to occur without a major flood evolving.
Damage to crops in the Philippines has likely been very limited so far and no big change was expected into Monday. Rain totals in the Visayan Islands through 0001 GMT today varied from 2.00 to more than 6.00 inches with the greatest rain in southern Samar Island. Wind speeds were kept under typhoon intensity which spared much of the nation from serious damage.
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