* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP942019 06/29/19 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 99% 100% LAT (deg N) 9.0 8.3 9.0 9.7 10.2 10.2 11.3 12.5 13.6 13.8 13.8 14.0 14.3 LON (deg W) 108.5 111.2 111.7 112.2 113.4 115.8 117.9 119.5 121.0 122.7 124.2 125.6 126.9 DTL (km) 1173 1397 1358 1324 1362 1540 1538 1531 1543 1638 1746 1839 1923 TRACK SOURCE AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 AP02 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 99% is 2.3 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 100% is 1.8 times the sample mean ( 56%) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIVIDUAL PREDICTOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROBABILITY OF GENESIS ******* 48-HR ****** ******* 120-HR ****** AVG TCGI CONT AVG TCGI CONT DIVERGENCE -2.0 -10.3 19.9% -2.0 -6.2 19.6% VORTICITY 1.6 3.5 30.7% 1.5 4.0 33.3% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 11.4 16.6% 14.9 9.5 27.5% RH 79.1 82.3 11.5% 74.8 79.6 6.7% GOES 42.9 78.3 17.7% 42.8 78.3 11.7% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 2.2% 0.9 0.5 1.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PREDICTOR DEFINITIONS (Averaged Over 500 km Radius) GENESIS CLIM = Climatological Prob (%) of Genesis (Source: NHC-TAFB Invest Database) DIVERGENCE = GFS 850 hPa Horizontal Divergence (x10-7 s-1) VORTICITY = GFS 850 hPa Vorticity (x10-6 s-1) VERTICAL SHEAR = GFS 200-850 hPa Vertical Shear (kt) RH = GFS 600-850 hPa Relative Humidity (%) GOES = GOES Water Vapor Pixels Colder than -40C (%) DVORAK = Dvorak T-number, source: TAFB Version 3.0, July 2018