Little TS Vicente began to develop last Thursday, became Tropical Depression Twenty-Three-E by 1500UTC on Friday, and a Tropical Storm by 2100UTC.
Vicente never reached hurricane status, probably due to proximity to his big sister Willa.
Both of which formed near an area south of Mexico and the Gulf of Tehuantepec (that narrow part of Mexico where the Bay of Campeche/Gulf of Mexico is just a short distance north of the Pacific Ocean). This area is the spawning place for many East Pacific cyclones.
It has been
very active this year.
Hurricane Willa began forming shortly after Vicente and became a tropical storm by 1500UTC on Saturday.
By 0900UTC on Sunday Willa was a Cat 1 hurricane and a Cat 2 by 1500UTC.
Willa continued a very rapid intensification and was a Cat 3 by 2100UTC, major hurricane status (Cat 1 at 0900, Cat 3 at 2100, just 12 hours).
By 2230UTC Willa was upgraded to extremely dangerous Cat 4 status (Cat 1-Cat4 in 13.5 hours).
Willa went to Cat 5 by 1500UTC on Monday. From Sunday, 0900UTC as a Cat 1, to 1500UTC Monday, a Cat 5. 30 hours to develop from a Cat 1 to strong Cat 5.
Just 30 hours duration as a hurricane to reach sustained winds of 160mph; and what many don't realize, much higher gusts which can buzzsaw the terrain and structures worse than a sustained wind can (as a sixty+ year long sailor/mariner, I can state that the gusts will get you).
As of 0000UTC Tuesday, Willa has slipped (due to an eyewall replacement cycle) to a very strong, still extremely dangerous Cat 4, with landfall expected near San Blas/Mazatlan on Tuesday afternoon.
Willa's remnants will then make a beeline across the Sierra Madres straight into South, Central and East Texas (probably even Houston, etc), see the NHC future track chart.
This extremely rapid intensification cycle has occurred with many hurricanes this year, recent devastating Atlantic Hurricane Michael for example (probably the most expensive US storm yet).
I'm anticipating some interesting scientific papers from the professional hurricane scientists about this phenomena later on.
Here in South and Central Texas, we haven't yet recovered from intense, expensive '500-year event' flooding events triggered in part by moisture plumes/WX systems from other recent Pacific hurricanes over the last month or so.
Now the future remnants of Willa (and Vicente) are expected to bring more major rainfall this week. Much more flooding is expected this week. The rivers are still high, and forget about soil moisture, it's basically boggy, even the caliche.
But let's not talk about that subject which shall not be mentioned around this noted WX website.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/?epachttps://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2018/VICENTE.shtml?https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2018/WILLA.shtml?