000 ABPZ20 KNHC 271714 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1100 AM PDT SAT SEP 27 2014 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Rachel, located several hundred miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending several hundred miles offshore of southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador are associated with an area of disturbed weather. Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could form by the middle of next week while this system moves slowly west-northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...60 percent. $$ Forecaster Brennan