NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 PM EDT Sun Sep 16 2018
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
The National Hurricane Center has issued the final advisory on Helene that has become a Post-Tropical Cyclone over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on recently downgraded Tropical Depression Joyce, located several hundred miles west-southwest of the Azores. The Weather Prediction Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Depression Florence, located inland over South Carolina.
1. A broad area of low pressure, associated with the remnants of Isaac, is located about 125 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. This system continues to produce disorganized showers and thunderstorms over the central Caribbean Sea. Some slow development is possible during the next day or so as it moves west-northwestward toward the northwestern Caribbean Sea. Afterward, environmental conditions are forecast to become less conducive and re-development appears unlikely. Regardless of development, locally heavy rains and gusty winds are forecast over portions of Hispaniola, Jamaica, and eastern Cuba during the next couple of days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...20 percent.
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent.
Public Advisories on Florence are issued by the Weather Prediction Center under AWIPS header TCPAT1, WMO header WTNT31 KWNH, and on the web at http://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov
