770 
ABNT20 KNHC 231742
TWOAT 

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 PM EDT Sat Sep 23 2023

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

Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories Tropical Storm 
Ophelia, located inland over eastern North Carolina and on newly 
formed Tropical Depression Seventeen, located over the Central 
Tropical Atlantic. 

Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave has recently emerged off the west coast of Africa 
and is producing a broad area of disorganized showers and 
thunderstorms. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive 
for some gradual development of this system during the middle to 
latter portions of next week while it moves westward across the 
eastern and central tropical Atlantic. 
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...20 percent.

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Public Advisories on Tropical Depression Seventeen are issued under 
WMO header WTNT32 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT2.
Forecast/Advisories on Tropical Depression Seventeen are issued 
under WMO header WTNT22 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMAT2.

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Forecaster Papin/D. Zelinsky