000 ABNT20 KNHC 022332 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT WED SEP 2 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Fred, located several hundred miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands. A tropical wave is expected to move off of the west coast of Africa several hundred miles southeast of the Cape Verde Islands Thursday or Friday. Conditions appear conducive for slow development over the weekend as the system moves generally westward at 15 to 20 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent $$ Forecaster Beven