000 ABPZ20 KNHC 141726 TWOEP Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 1100 AM PDT Thu Jun 14 2018 For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude: The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Bud, located just south of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Satellite images indicate that an area of low pressure centered about 120 miles south of Acapulco, Mexico, is becoming better defined, and a tropical depression could be forming. If current trends continue, advisories will be initiated this afternoon or evening on this system. The low is expected to move slowly northwestward near or over the coast of Mexico during the next couple of days. The system is forecast to produce heavy rains, with flash floods and mudslides likely over the southern portions of the Mexican states of Guerrero and Oaxaca through the weekend. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...90 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. $$ Forecaster Blake