000 ABNT20 KNHC 172338 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 PM EDT Sun Jun 17 2018 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A surface trough is producing a large but disorganized area of showers and thunderstorms over the west-central and northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Strong gusty winds to near 40 mph are accompanying some of the stronger thunderstorms. Environmental conditions do not support significant development. However, heavy rains and gusty winds are likely to continue across the northwestern Gulf of Mexico through tonight. This activity will reach portions of the Texas and southwestern Louisiana coasts later tonight and on Monday. For more details on this disturbance, please see products issued by your local weather office and High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. && High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and on the Web at https://ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.shtml. $$ Forecaster Stewart