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ABNT20 KNHC 151203
TWOAT

Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Fri Sep 15 2023

For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane
Lee, located several hundred miles south-southeast of the New
England states, and on Hurricane Margot, located over the central
Atlantic.

Central Tropical Atlantic (AL97):
Showers and thunderstorms have become better organized in
association with a broad low pressure area located about midway
between the Cabo Verde Islands and the Lesser Antilles.
Environmental conditions remain conducive for additional
development, and this system is expected to become a tropical
depression within the next day or so while it moves
west-northwestward to northwestward at 10 to 15 mph across the
central tropical Atlantic. For additional information on this
system, including gale warnings, see High Seas Forecasts issued by
the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…high…90 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days…high…90 percent.

Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave is forecast to move off the west coast of Africa by
the middle part of next week. Some gradual development of this
system is possible thereafter while the system moves westward across
the eastern tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days…low…20 percent.

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High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service
can be found under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT1, WMO header FZNT01
KWBC, and online at ocean.weather.gov/shtml/NFDHSFAT1.php

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Forecaster Bucci