000 ABPZ20 KNHC 301731 TWOEP TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1100 AM PDT TUE SEP 30 2014 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Rachel, located several hundred miles west of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. An elongated area of low pressure continues a few hundred miles south of the southern coast of Mexico. Although the shower activity has changed little in organization during the past several hours, environmental conditions are favorable for a tropical depression to form tomorrow or Thursday while the system moves toward the west-northwest or northwest near 10 mph. Regardless of tropical cyclone formation, this disturbance will likely produce locally heavy rains over portions of southern Mexico that could cause flash flooding and mud slides. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...60 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. $$ Forecaster Avila