* 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 31% 53% LAT (deg N) 12.8 12.6 13.1 13.4 13.8 13.1 13.3 12.8 12.9 14.4 14.2 13.8 13.6 LON (deg W) 25.2 26.3 27.9 29.4 30.7 33.4 35.7 38.1 40.7 41.2 42.3 43.7 45.8 DTL (km) 860 980 1137 1291 1425 1725 1861 1735 1518 1597 1496 1370 1213 TRACK SOURCE AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 31% is 1.0 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 -1.0 6.1% 1.0 -0.1 9.7% VORTICITY 1.7 2.0 7.8% 1.4 1.8 16.4% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 9.3 15.3% 18.4 8.9 21.7% RH 73.1 73.5 -0.2% 70.9 72.6 3.2% 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