* 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 23% 52% LAT (deg N) 13.6 13.5 13.3 13.4 13.4 13.4 13.0 12.7 13.3 12.9 13.0 13.0 14.2 LON (deg W) 27.5 27.9 29.1 30.7 32.5 34.6 36.4 38.2 39.3 40.6 42.0 43.4 42.9 DTL (km) 1085 1129 1261 1431 1624 1849 1811 1720 1663 1526 1422 1320 1461 TRACK SOURCE AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 AP18 TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 23% is 0.8 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 52% 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 3.9% 1.0 0.1 8.7% VORTICITY 1.7 2.0 6.1% 1.4 1.7 15.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 11.6 11.5% 18.4 7.0 22.4% RH 73.1 73.6 -0.1% 70.9 71.6 3.0% GOES 29.1 4.5 0.1% 29.3 4.5 0.1% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.2% 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