* 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 41% 41% LAT (deg N) 11.0 10.9 10.6 12.1 13.2 15.0 16.1 16.7 16.7 16.4 16.5 17.3 16.7 LON (deg W) 129.3 131.1 133.7 135.9 139.0 139.6 139.3 139.4 139.5 140.3 141.9 141.5 144.2 DTL (km) 2362 2517 2470 2181 1824 1688 1682 1656 1645 1571 1403 1418 1157 TRACK SOURCE AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 41% is 0.9 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 41% is 0.7 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 -7.3 10.1% -2.0 -1.9 6.9% VORTICITY 1.6 0.9 7.9% 1.5 0.6 6.3% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 10.1 11.8% 14.9 10.4 20.3% RH 79.1 75.5 5.9% 74.8 68.9 3.6% GOES 42.9 27.9 4.0% 42.8 27.9 3.1% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 1.5% 0.9 0.5 1.0% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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