If the watchtower is running, it should update the storagenode anyway.
Please, use this calculator to see a vetting progress: Earnings calculator (Update 2023-12-05: v13.1.0 - Now with support for different payouts per satellite - Detailed earnings info and health status of your node, including vetting progress)
While your node in vetting process, It can receive only 5% of customers’ traffic until got vetted. To be vetted on one satellite the node should pass 100 audits from it. For the one node it should take at least a month.
If you want to prognose how long it may take to fill up your disk and how much you may earn, you can use Realistic earnings estimator