000 ABPZ20 KNHC 281148 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 500 AM PDT SUN SEP 28 2014 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Rachel, located several hundred miles west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending from the coast of southeastern Mexico southward for several hundred miles are associated with a broad area of low pressure. Environmental conditions are expected to be conducive for gradual development, and a tropical depression could form around the middle part of the week while the system drifts west-northwestward or northwestward. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...60 percent. $$ Forecaster Kimberlain