000 ABNT20 KNHC 161127 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Satellite images indicate that the large area of cloudiness and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave centered about 500 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands is gradually becoming better organized. Conditions appear to be favorable for a tropical depression to form during the next couple of days while the system moves toward the west-northwest and then northwest toward the open waters of the central Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent $$ Forecaster Avila