000 ABPZ20 KNHC 171142 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 500 AM PDT SAT SEP 17 2016 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: A broad area of low pressure located about 400 miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico, continues to produce a large area of showers and thunderstorms. Conditions are conducive for development, and a tropical depression is expected to form later today or on Sunday while this system moves west-northwestward at 10 to 15 mph a few hundred miles offshore of the coast of Mexico. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent An area of low pressure could form early next week several hundred miles southwest of southern Mexico. Some gradual development is possible by midweek while the system moves slowly westward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent $$ Forecaster Beven