* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL912019 09/02/19 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 50% 79% LAT (deg N) 14.3 14.6 15.3 16.0 16.5 17.7 18.7 19.1 20.1 21.4 23.1 24.5 25.6 LON (deg W) 27.3 27.4 27.8 28.4 28.8 30.3 31.3 32.6 33.0 33.5 33.8 34.9 35.7 DTL (km) 1055 1064 1106 1175 1223 1403 1516 1642 1667 1709 1738 1858 1952 TRACK SOURCE AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 50% is 1.7 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 79% is 1.9 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 0.3 5.1% 1.0 -0.3 12.1% VORTICITY 1.7 3.7 15.4% 1.4 3.6 32.4% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 7.5 20.4% 18.4 13.3 22.7% RH 73.1 82.1 -0.2% 70.9 71.0 3.5% GOES 29.1 42.7 2.2% 29.3 42.7 1.6% DVORAK 0.8 1.0 6.6% 0.8 1.0 6.9% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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