Statement as of 10:30 PM EDT on September 1, 2004
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico...
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Frances...centered about 585 miles east-southeast of West Palm Beach
Florida. Disturbed weather is associated with an area of low pressure about 900 miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde Islands. Although
upper-level winds are not especially favorable...this system could become a tropical depression over the next day or so. The tropical wave located a few hundred miles south of the Cape Verde Islands is showing signs of organization...and this system has the potential to develop into a tropical depression over the next day or two as it moves westward. Elsewhere...tropical storm formation is not expected through Friday.
Forecaster Franklin
97L. INVEST, SHEARED BUT MORE CONVECTION
98L. INVEST, LOOKING MUCH, MUCH BETTER!





