000 ABNT20 KNHC 281733 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 PM EDT FRI AUG 28 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Erika, located near the southern coast of the Dominican Republic. A tropical wave is forecast to move off of the west coast of Africa over the weekend. Some slow development is possible through the middle of next week while the system moves west-northwestward near the Cape Verde Islands at about 10 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent $$ Forecaster Berg