* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL942019 09/07/19 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 27% 53% LAT (deg N) 14.2 14.1 14.0 13.8 14.0 14.2 14.0 13.8 13.7 13.8 13.6 13.8 13.6 LON (deg W) 27.9 28.9 30.3 31.5 33.0 35.4 38.6 41.3 43.6 46.2 48.3 50.7 52.9 DTL (km) 1120 1229 1380 1511 1670 1926 1771 1539 1367 1200 1060 969 886 TRACK SOURCE AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 AP06 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 27% is 0.9 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 -0.2 4.4% 1.0 0.0 9.5% VORTICITY 1.7 1.9 6.7% 1.4 1.8 16.7% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 8.0 14.4% 18.4 7.5 22.4% RH 73.1 69.3 -0.1% 70.9 68.0 2.6% GOES 29.1 4.5 0.2% 29.3 4.5 0.1% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.3% 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