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ABPZ20 KNHC 251732
TWOEP 

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1100 AM PDT THU AUG 25 2016

For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude:

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Storm Lester, located about 450 miles south-southwest of the
southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula.

Showers and thunderstorms associated with an area of low pressure
located about 1700 miles east-southeast of the Big Island of Hawaii
have increased in coverage during the past 24 hours.  Environmental
conditions are expected to be conducive for further development, and
a tropical depression is likely to form by this weekend while the
low moves westward or west-northwestward at 15 to 20 mph.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...60 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...80 percent

An area of low pressure could form early next week several hundred
miles south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California
Peninsula.  Some subsequent development of this system is possible
as it moves slowly westward.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...near 0 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent

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Public Advisories on Lester are issued under WMO header WTPZ33 KNHC
and under AWIPS header MIATCPEP3.  Forecast/Advisories on Lester are
issued under WMO header WTPZ23 KNHC and under AWIPS header
MIATCMEP3.

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Forecaster Brennan