* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP942019 08/16/19 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 11% 15% LAT (deg N) 16.9 17.2 18.9 19.0 19.2 19.8 20.4 20.9 21.2 21.8 22.7 24.4 26.6 LON (deg W) 133.4 134.8 134.0 135.2 136.3 138.2 139.9 141.0 141.7 142.2 142.6 143.1 143.9 DTL (km) 2245 2124 2175 2060 1944 1732 1562 1443 1378 1338 1312 1322 1366 TRACK SOURCE AP06 AP06 TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 11% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 15% 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 2.1 0.0% -2.0 1.4 0.6% VORTICITY 1.6 0.6 3.4% 1.5 0.4 3.2% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 17.4 4.1% 14.9 26.7 8.4% RH 79.1 71.2 2.4% 74.8 64.6 1.9% GOES 42.9 9.6 0.6% 42.8 9.6 0.6% 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