000 ABNT20 KNHC 292338 TWOAT Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 800 PM EDT Wed Jun 29 2022 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: Southern Caribbean Sea: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone Two, located over the southern Caribbean Sea near Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. Western Gulf of Mexico: An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft investigated the low pressure are over the western Gulf of Mexico this afternoon and found a closed wind circulation. However, at this time the associated shower and thunderstorm activity is too poorly organized to designate the system as a tropical depression. This system is forecast to move slowly westward and approach the coast of southern Texas and northern Mexico by early Thursday. Some slow development is still possible and it could become a short-lived tropical depression near the coast before it turns northwestward and moves inland over Texas later on Thursday. Regardless of development, heavy rain will be possible along portions of the Texas coast for the next few days. For more information about the potential for heavy rain, please see products issued by your National Weather Service office. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent. Western Tropical Atlantic: A tropical wave located over the western tropical Atlantic continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Slow development of this system is possible while it moves west-northwestward for the next few days. The wave is forecast to move over the Windward Islands late Friday or early Saturday and then over the eastern Caribbean Sea by the weekend, where further development is unlikely due to unfavorable environmental conditions. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Beven