Hurricane Henriette sputters as it moves in open Pacific waters MIAMI, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The National Hurricane Center in Miami issued advisories Wednesday for Hurricane Henriette as it spins far from land in the eastern North Pacific. The storm was several hundred miles southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, and far to the east-southeast of the Hawaiian Islands, the center said in an advisory issued at 2 p.m. Henriette is a minimal cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph moving west at 10 to 15 mph. The NHC said, "environmental conditions are conducive for gradual development of this disturbance" during the next few days. The storm has a 20 percent chance of maintaining its tropical cyclone characteristics over the next 48 hours, the center said, and a 50 percent chance over the next five days.