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ABNT20 KNHC 030536
TWOAT 

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 AM EDT Sat Oct 3 2020

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on 
Tropical Storm Gamma, located over the northwestern Caribbean Sea.

A tropical wave is producing widespread cloudiness, showers, and 
thunderstorms over the eastern and central Caribbean Sea, with 
locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds affecting portions of the 
ABC Islands, the Lesser Antilles, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto 
Rico.  Environmental conditions are expected to become a little 
more conducive for development, and a tropical depression could 
form next week while the system moves westward or west- 
northwestward at about 15 mph across the central and western 
Caribbean Sea.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent.

Shower activity has increased since yesterday in association with a 
tropical wave located about midway between the coast of Africa and 
the Lesser Antilles.  Some slow development of this system may 
occur during the next several days as it moves generally westward 
to west-northwestward.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...10 percent.

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Public Advisories on Tropical Storm Gamma are issued under WMO 
header WTNT35 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT5.
Forecast/Advisories on Tropical Storm Gamma are issued under WMO 
header WTNT25 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMAT5.

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Forecaster Beven