000 ABNT20 KNHC 272333 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT THU AUG 27 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Erika, located over the northeastern Caribbean Sea. A tropical wave is forecast to emerge off of the coast of Africa on Saturday a few hundred miles east-southeast of the Cape Verde Islands. Some slow development of the disturbance will be possible through the middle of next week while the system moves westward at 10 to 15 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent $$ Forecaster Stewart