000 ABPZ20 KNHC 140529 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1100 PM PDT WED AUG 13 2014 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Karina, located several hundred miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. An elongated area of low pressure located about 1200 miles east-southeast of the Big Island of Hawaii is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Gradual development of this system is expected, and a tropical depression could form during the next few days while it moves slowly northward or northwestward. This system could move into the Central Pacific basin on Friday or this weekend. * Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...50 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent. An area of low pressure is forecast to form well south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula in a couple of days. Some gradual development of this system is possible this weekend and early next week while the system moves generally northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent. * Formation chance through 5 day...low...20 percent. $$ Forecaster Cangialosi