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Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 PM EDT Wed Sep 26 2018

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

The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical
Storm Kirk, located a couple of hundred miles east of the Lesser
Antilles.

1. Post-Tropical Cyclone Leslie, located over the central Atlantic
Ocean several hundred miles west-southwest of the Azores, has
intensified into a potent non-tropical low with hurricane-force
winds.  The associated shower activity is becoming more organized,
and the low is showing signs of taking on more subtropical
characteristics.  Leslie is expected to again become a subtropical
storm, or possibly a tropical storm, on Thursday or Friday while it
moves west-southwestward at about 10 mph over the north-central
Atlantic.  For more information on this system, see High Seas
Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent.

Public Advisories on Kirk are issued under WMO header WTNT32 KNHC
and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT2.  Forecast/Advisories on Kirk are
issued under WMO header WTNT22 KNHC and under AWIPS header
MIATCMAT2.

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

Forecaster Berg