* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL922019 09/04/19 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 10% 11% LAT (deg N) 34.3 34.9 35.7 36.7 36.9 38.4 40.9 42.7 45.9 47.5 50.7 54.4 56.0 LON (deg W) 62.7 62.2 61.6 60.8 59.8 57.8 54.8 52.2 48.2 45.8 41.3 33.2 24.0 DTL (km) 1050 996 928 854 878 806 650 450 388 526 875 1494 919 TRACK SOURCE AP14 AP14 AP14 AP14 AP14 AP14 AP14 AP14 TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 10% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 11% 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 -0.9 2.5% 1.0 -0.7 4.5% VORTICITY 1.7 0.9 2.1% 1.4 0.3 2.7% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 33.9 2.2% 18.4 46.5 0.9% RH 73.1 60.4 0.0% 70.9 58.5 0.6% GOES 29.1 37.0 0.6% 29.3 37.0 0.5% DVORAK 0.8 1.0 2.2% 0.8 1.0 2.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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