* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL962019 08/01/19 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 33% 61% LAT (deg N) 9.7 9.8 10.1 10.6 10.9 11.9 12.9 13.4 13.8 13.9 14.3 14.4 15.3 LON (deg W) 38.5 39.4 40.4 41.6 42.9 44.9 47.0 48.6 51.1 53.9 56.7 59.3 61.8 DTL (km) 1409 1395 1362 1282 1191 1122 1068 1026 954 844 607 440 507 TRACK SOURCE AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN AEMN TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 33% is 1.1 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 61% is 1.4 times the sample mean ( 43%) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIVIDUAL PREDICTOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROBABILITY OF GENESIS ******* 48-HR ****** ******* 120-HR ****** AVG TCGI CONT AVG TCGI CONT DIVERGENCE -1.0 -0.9 6.2% 1.0 -1.1 14.0% VORTICITY 1.7 1.9 7.9% 1.4 1.7 17.6% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 6.5 17.3% 18.4 8.7 23.8% RH 73.1 74.8 -0.2% 70.9 73.7 3.6% GOES 29.1 6.6 0.3% 29.3 6.6 0.2% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.5% 0.8 0.5 1.8% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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