000 ABNT20 KNHC 050512 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 200 AM EDT MON OCT 5 2015 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Joaquin, located about 100 miles northwest of Bermuda. A broad low pressure area located about midway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles is producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Upper-level winds are not particularly conducive for tropical cyclone formation, and any development of this system should be slow to occur during the next several days while it moves west-northwestward at about 15 mph. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent * Formation chance through 5 days...low...30 percent $$ Forecaster Brown