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ABNT20 KNHC 282334
TWOAT 

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
800 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 inland over Haiti.

A broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave is
about to move off of the west coast of Africa.  Environmental
conditions are expected to be conducive for development, and a
tropical depression could form during the next few days while the
system moves west-northwestward toward the Cape Verde Islands at
about 10 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...50 percent

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Forecaster Kimberlain