000 ABPZ20 KNHC 191743 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1100 AM PDT TUE AUG 19 2014 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Karina, located more than a thousand miles east of the Big Island of Hawaii, and on Tropical Storm Lowell, located a little more than 700 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. A large but disorganized area of showers and thunderstorms located several hundred miles south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec is associated with a tropical wave. A low pressure system is expected to form well south of the coast of Mexico during the next day or two, and environmental conditions are conducive for the low to become a tropical depression by the weekend while it moves toward the west-northwest. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent. $$ Forecaster Avila