* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL942019 09/06/19 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 29% 60% LAT (deg N) 14.0 13.8 13.8 14.1 13.8 13.7 13.5 13.0 12.7 12.5 12.6 12.6 12.4 LON (deg W) 26.1 27.2 28.6 30.2 31.4 34.0 36.5 39.8 42.7 45.1 47.7 49.9 52.5 DTL (km) 929 1050 1200 1368 1500 1781 1863 1600 1345 1162 997 885 762 TRACK SOURCE AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 29% is 1.0 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 60% is 1.4 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 4.9% 1.0 -0.2 10.8% VORTICITY 1.7 2.1 7.8% 1.4 2.0 18.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 8.1 15.3% 18.4 6.1 24.8% RH 73.1 71.9 -0.1% 70.9 71.2 3.2% GOES 29.1 2.8 0.1% 29.3 2.8 0.1% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.4% 0.8 0.5 1.8% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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