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ABNT20 KNHC 121750
TWOAT 

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 PM EDT Wed Aug 12 2026

For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America:

Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on newly formed 
Tropical Storm Cristobal, located over the Atlantic west-southwest 
of the Azores.

Central Tropical Atlantic (AL92):
An area of showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave 
is located about 950 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde 
Islands. Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for 
development during the next couple of days, and a tropical 
depression will likely form while the system moves westward to 
west-northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...80 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...high...80 percent.

Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave located several hundred miles south of the Cabo 
Verde Islands is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms. 
Environmental conditions are forecast to be generally conducive for 
some development of this system during the next several days while 
it moves westward or west-northwestward across the eastern and 
central tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.

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Public Advisories on Tropical Storm Cristobal are issued under WMO 
header WTNT33 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT3.
Forecast/Advisories on Tropical Storm Cristobal are issued under 
WMO header WTNT23 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMAT3.

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Forecaster Adams/Pasch