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ABPZ20 KNHC 181150
TWOEP 

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
500 AM PDT Fri Aug 18 2017

For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude:

Showers and thunderstorms associated with a low pressure area
located about 700 miles south-southwest of the Baja California
peninsula have become more organized overnight.  Environmental
conditions are conducive for this system to become a tropical
cyclone at any time over the next day or so while it moves
west-northwestward at about 15 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.

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Forecaster Zelinsky