000 ABPZ20 KNHC 132335 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 500 PM PDT Wed Sep 13 2017 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Fifteen-E, located several hundred miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, and on recently upgraded Tropical Storm Max, located near the southwest coast of Mexico. A broad area of low pressure is located several hundred miles south of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Shower activity continues to show signs of organization, and a tropical depression is expected to form within the next couple of days while the system moves slowly northwestward. For more information on this system, please see High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. An area of low pressure located about 1500 miles east-southeast of the Hawaiian Islands is producing persistent shower and thunderstorm activity. Satellite imagery indicates that a well-defined center does not currently exist and additional development, if any, is expected to be slow to occur while this system moves little during the next several days. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. && High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFEPI, WMO header FZPN02 KWBC, and on the web at http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/NFDHSFEPI.shtml. Public Advisories on Max are issued under WMO header WTPZ31 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPEP1. Forecast/Advisories on Max are issued under WMO header WTPZ21 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMEP1. $$ Forecaster Zelinsky