Tropical storm Noul landed in central Vietnam on September 17, and NASA-NOAA’s Finland NPP satellite took a picture of the storm over Laos. Noul weakened as it moved towards Thailand, where it is predicted to disintegrate.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that the system landed north of Hue, Vietnam at approximately 0100 UTC on 18 September (21:00 EDT on 17 September) and had begun to monitor inland.

On September 18, at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 UTC / 2:00 p.m. Vietnam Local Time), the VIIRS instrument from the Finnish nuclear power plant satellite provided a visible view of Nouli as it moved to Thailand. The storm seemed shapeless and the shallow center was difficult to find. Deep convection masks the low-level orbit that has followed the hinterland and is located above Laos.

By 5:00 a.m. EDT (0900 UTC), the JTWC released the latest bulletin about the storm. At that time, Tropical Storm Noul was located near latitude 16.4 degrees north and longitude 104.4 degrees east, about 174 nautical miles west of Da Nang, Vietnam, and above Laos. It moved west and had a maximum continuous wind speed of 40 knots (46 mph / 74 kmph).

Noul is now disintegrating as it moves to Thailand.

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