* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL922019 09/03/19 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 10% 14% LAT (deg N) 28.4 29.3 30.2 31.2 31.9 33.3 34.1 34.2 34.2 34.1 31.2 31.9 31.9 LON (deg W) 65.2 66.4 67.2 66.6 66.2 65.8 63.4 61.0 60.1 59.4 58.4 56.8 57.1 DTL (km) 1077 1121 998 985 982 960 1043 1104 1134 1170 1503 1501 1482 TRACK SOURCE AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 10% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 14% is 0.3 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 2.2% 1.0 -0.1 3.8% VORTICITY 1.7 1.3 2.5% 1.4 0.8 3.9% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 23.7 4.0% 18.4 28.2 4.6% RH 73.1 66.3 0.0% 70.9 61.4 0.7% GOES 29.1 15.5 0.3% 29.3 15.5 0.2% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 0.6% 0.8 0.5 0.7% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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