775 ABNT20 KNHC 262338 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 PM EDT Wed Sep 26 2018 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Kirk, located a couple of hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles. Post-Tropical Cyclone Leslie, located over the central Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles west-southwest of the Azores, has intensified into a potent non-tropical low with hurricane-force winds. The associated shower activity is becoming more organized, and the low is showing signs of taking on more subtropical characteristics. Leslie is expected to again become a subtropical storm, or possibly a tropical storm, on Thursday or Friday while it moves west-southwestward at about 10 mph over the north-central Atlantic. For more information on this system, see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. && Public Advisories on Kirk are issued under WMO header WTNT32 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT2. Forecast/Advisories on Kirk are issued under WMO header WTNT22 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMAT2. 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 Berg