000 ABNT20 KNHC 062341 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT TUE SEP 6 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A tropical wave located over the far eastern Atlantic Ocean just west of the coast of Africa is producing disorganized showers and a few thunderstorms. A low pressure area is expected to form in association with the wave several hundred miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands in a couple of days. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could form by the weekend while the system moves west-northwestward to northwestward toward the central tropical Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent $$ Forecaster Brown