Offshore Forecast
Issued by NWS
Issued by NWS
448 FZNT25 KNHC 161543 OFFN04 NAVTEX Marine Forecast NWS National Hurricane Center Miami, FL 1143 AM EDT Sun Jun 16 2024 ...Please refer to Coastal Waters Forecasts (CWF) available through NOAA Weather Radio and other means for detailed Coastal Waters Forecasts... Southeast Gulf of Mexico .SYNOPSIS...A broad low to middle level cyclonic circulation, a Central American Gyre, is currently over southern Mexico and Central America. The gyre center is expected to persist through the middle of this week, while shifting WNW to NW into the SW Gulf of Mexico. A broad area of low pressure is forecast to form from this system over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico in a day or two. Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression could form by midweek while it moves slowly westward or west-northwestward. Active convection across the southeast Gulf, along with increasing winds to gale-force and rough seas, is expected to shift westward with this system Mon evening through the middle part of the week, impacting the south-central and northwest Gulf. .THIS AFTERNOON...E to SE winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 3 to 5 ft. Scattered showers and isolated tstms. .TONIGHT...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Scattered showers and isolated tstms. .MON...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. .MON NIGHT...E to SE winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 5 to 7 ft. .TUE...E to SE winds 20 to 25 kt. Seas 6 to 8 ft. .TUE NIGHT...E winds 20 to 25 kt. Seas 6 to 8 ft. .WED...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 5 to 7 ft. .WED NIGHT...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 5 to 7 ft. .THU...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 5 to 7 ft. .THU NIGHT...E to SE winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. Within 200 nm east of the coast of Florida .SYNOPSIS...Scattered showers and thunderstorms persist in the vicinity of a 1015 mb low and associated trough extending to the Turks and Caicos. Fresh NE to E winds will develop N of 25N and west of 60W by Mon morning, as high pressure builds north of the rea. The low will weaken into a trough by Mon evening, however, a low pressure is forecast to re-develop by midweek a few hundred miles northeast of the central Bahamas. Environmental conditions could be conducive for some development of this system thereafter while it moves westward or west-northwestward. .THIS AFTERNOON...NE to E winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 2 ft or less. .TONIGHT...NE to E winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 3 ft. .MON...E winds 10 to 15 kt S of 27N, and NE to E 15 to 20 kt N of 27N. Seas 3 to 4 ft. .MON NIGHT...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 3 to 5 ft. .TUE...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. .TUE NIGHT...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft. .WED...NE to E winds 20 to 25 kt. Seas 5 to 7 ft. .WED NIGHT...E winds 20 to 25 kt. Seas 6 to 8 ft. .THU...E to SE winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 6 to 9 ft. .THU NIGHT...E to SE winds 15 kt. Seas 6 to 9 ft in E swell.