000 ABPZ20 KNHC 282309 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 500 PM 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 of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. A large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms extending from near the coast of southeastern Mexico southward for several hundred miles is associated with an elongated area of low pressure. Environmental conditions are expected to gradually become conducive for development over the next several days, and a tropical depression could form around the middle part of the week while the system drifts west-northwestward or northwestward just offshore of the south-central coast of Mexico. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...70 percent. $$ Forecaster Stewart