* 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% 66% LAT (deg N) 13.6 12.9 12.7 12.9 13.2 12.9 12.9 12.9 12.6 12.5 12.3 12.2 12.6 LON (deg W) 24.8 25.9 27.4 28.4 30.0 32.0 33.8 35.8 39.2 42.1 44.0 45.3 45.9 DTL (km) 797 930 1093 1194 1359 1578 1771 1816 1624 1375 1218 1122 1117 TRACK SOURCE AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 31% is 1.0 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 66% is 1.6 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 -1.1 6.2% 1.0 -0.7 12.8% VORTICITY 1.7 2.4 8.8% 1.4 2.3 22.1% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 12.0 14.2% 18.4 7.2 25.4% RH 73.1 75.0 -0.2% 70.9 74.4 3.8% GOES 29.1 4.5 0.2% 29.3 4.5 0.2% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.5% 0.8 0.5 1.9% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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