* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL922019 09/02/19 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 14% 28% LAT (deg N) 28.0 28.4 29.1 30.1 31.1 32.6 33.8 34.4 35.0 36.3 35.9 35.6 36.7 LON (deg W) 63.9 65.1 66.0 66.3 66.0 64.7 61.8 59.7 57.3 56.5 56.7 56.4 55.6 DTL (km) 1077 1082 1116 1075 1040 1083 1124 1128 1178 1065 1101 1141 1054 TRACK SOURCE AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 14% is 0.5 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 28% is 0.7 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 -1.0 3.3% 1.0 -1.0 7.9% VORTICITY 1.7 1.5 3.4% 1.4 1.6 9.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 19.1 6.1% 18.4 28.3 7.5% RH 73.1 67.5 -0.1% 70.9 63.7 1.4% GOES 29.1 22.4 0.5% 29.3 22.4 0.5% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 0.8% 0.8 0.5 1.1% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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