000 ABNT20 KNHC 161142 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT FRI SEP 16 2016 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Ian, located several hundred miles east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, on Tropical Storm Julia, located offshore of the South Carolina coast, and on Tropical Storm Karl, located several hundred miles west-northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. An elongated area of low pressure over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico is producing disorganized shower and thunderstorm activity. Development of this system, if any, should be slow to occur before it moves inland over Texas by tonight. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent A tropical wave moving off of the coast of Africa into the far eastern Atlantic is expected to move west-northwestward for the next few days. Some development of this system is possible before conditions become less favorable for tropical cyclone formation by the middle of next week. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...50 percent $$ Forecaster Beven