000 ABNT20 KNHC 090519 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 AM EDT Mon Oct 9 2017 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The NOAA Weather Prediction Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Nate, located over Kentucky. A well-defined low pressure system located over the subtropical Atlantic Ocean about 800 miles southwest of the Azores is producing winds to near gale force. Although the low is being affected by strong upper-level winds, shower and thunderstorm activity has been persisting near and to the east of the center during the past several hours. If this activity continues, a tropical or subtropical cyclone could form later today. The low is forecast to drift northward today and then move slowly toward the east-southeast through the middle of the week. Additional information on this system can be found in high seas forecasts issued by the National Weather Service. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 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 and WMO header FZNT01 KWBC. $$ Forecaster Cangialosi