NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1130 AM EDT THU AUG 24 2006

For the north Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the gulf of Mexico...

The national hurricane center is issuing advisories on tropical Storm Debby...located over the Eastern Atlantic about 955 Miles west-northwest of the Cape Verde islands.

A strong tropical wave is moving through the Windward Islands...
Accompanied by sustained winds of 35 to 40 mph and heavy rains in Squalls. Satellite images and surface reports suggest that the system has not yet acquired a well-defined center of circulation.

An air force reserve unit reconnaissance aircraft will investigate the wave early this afternoon. This system has the potential to become a tropical depression or tropical storm later today or tonight.

Regardless of whether or not the wave becomes a tropical Cyclone...tropical storm conditions will continue to affect portions of the Windward Islands through tonight.

Elsewhere...tropical storm formation is not expected through
Friday.