000 ABPZ20 KNHC 182336 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 500 PM PDT SAT JUL 18 2015 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Dolores, located a few hundred miles southwest of Punta Eugenia, Mexico. Showers and thunderstorms continue in association with an area of low pressure located about 700 miles southwest of Acapulco, Mexico. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for development, and a tropical depression is likely to form by the early or middle part of next week while the system moves northwestward at about 10 mph well offshore of the coast of Mexico. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent $$ Forecaster Stewart