097 ABNT20 KNHC 041734 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL Issued by the NWS Weather Prediction Center College Park MD 200 PM EDT Tue Sep 4 2018 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on recently upgraded Hurricane Florence, located over the eastern Atlantic Ocean, and on Tropical Storm Gordon, located over the north-central Gulf of Mexico more than 100 miles southeast of the Mississippi coast. A broad low pressure system located a few hundred miles south of the Cabo Verde Islands is forecast to move slowly westward to west-northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic for the next several days. Environmental conditions are expected to gradually become more conducive for development, and a tropical depression is likely to form by late this week or this weekend. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...30 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent. $$ Forecaster Bann/Stewart