000 ABNT20 KNHC 020000 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 PM EDT THU OCT 1 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Joaquin, located near the central Bahamas. Thunderstorms are showing some signs of organization in association with a non-tropical area of low pressure centered over the central Atlantic about 700 miles southeast of Bermuda. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for the low to obtain more tropical characteristics, and a tropical cyclone is likely to form within a couple of days while the low moves erratically northeastward then northward. This system is expected to produce gale-force winds overnight and additional information on this system can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent && High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01 KWBC, and on the Web at http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.shtml. $$ Forecaster Stewart