* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP982019 07/19/19 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 17% 19% LAT (deg N) 11.5 12.0 12.3 12.6 14.2 17.5 19.7 20.5 20.5 20.1 21.2 21.1 21.4 LON (deg W) 129.9 130.5 130.9 132.0 133.0 134.2 132.9 133.4 133.8 134.1 133.3 134.7 135.8 DTL (km) 2374 2388 2391 2448 2392 2182 2030 2029 2055 2109 1958 2061 1990 TRACK SOURCE AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 17% is 0.4 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 19% is 0.3 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 -4.0 3.4% -2.0 -0.2 2.4% VORTICITY 1.6 0.7 3.6% 1.5 0.3 2.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 17.5 4.1% 14.9 21.3 9.8% RH 79.1 73.9 2.8% 74.8 63.2 1.8% GOES 42.9 27.9 2.1% 42.8 27.9 1.9% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 0.8% 0.9 0.5 0.6% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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