Tropical Storm ‘Lawin’ still too far away

Project NOAH as of September 22, 2012, 4:01AM. Screengrab from https://noah.dost.gov.ph/

MANILA, Philippines—A weather disturbance east of the country developed into a tropical storm named “Lawin” on Friday but the state weather bureau said it was still too far away to be felt.

As of 10 a.m. Friday, no public storm signals had been raised in the Philippines.

The eye of the storm was observed at 600 kilometers east of Virac, Catanduanes, moving in a west-southwest direction at 11 kph, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said.

Lawin, which developed from a low-pressure area and then a tropical depression east of the Philippines, was packing maximum sustained winds of 75 kph near the center, and gustiness of up to 90 kph, the weather bureau said.

Pagasa said the storm would spawn moderate to intense rains at 10-20 mm per hour within its 600-km diameter.

“Tropical Storm Lawin is still too far to directly affect any part of the country,” it said in an advisory.