* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL942019 09/06/19 12 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 32% 53% LAT (deg N) 13.5 12.5 12.5 13.1 13.6 14.4 14.3 14.1 14.0 13.9 12.4 13.9 14.0 LON (deg W) 25.2 26.5 27.2 28.8 30.1 33.5 36.0 38.6 41.5 44.5 48.3 48.5 49.2 DTL (km) 842 1004 1078 1233 1363 1721 1961 1778 1540 1324 944 1083 1060 TRACK SOURCE AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 AP09 TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 32% is 1.1 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 53% is 1.2 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 6.1% 1.0 0.1 8.9% VORTICITY 1.7 2.1 8.3% 1.4 1.8 16.7% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 8.0 16.5% 18.4 7.1 22.6% RH 73.1 71.2 -0.1% 70.9 70.2 2.9% GOES 29.1 4.5 0.2% 29.3 4.5 0.1% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.5% 0.8 0.5 1.7% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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