940 ABNT20 KNHC 231142 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 AM EDT Thu Aug 23 2018 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A tropical wave is forecast to emerge off the west coast of Africa early Friday and then move quickly westward at about 20 mph. No development is expected during the next few days, but environmental conditions could become a little more conducive for some development of the wave early next week over the central tropical Atlantic Ocean. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent. $$ Forecaster Berg