* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL942019 09/07/19 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 29% 55% LAT (deg N) 13.5 13.6 13.1 13.2 12.9 13.0 12.8 12.5 12.0 12.4 12.0 11.9 11.7 LON (deg W) 28.8 30.6 31.8 32.9 33.9 36.3 38.7 41.2 44.0 46.9 48.4 51.7 53.6 DTL (km) 1226 1417 1553 1669 1781 1813 1682 1447 1193 1031 900 733 667 TRACK SOURCE AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 AP16 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 29% is 1.0 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 55% is 1.3 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 -0.4 5.0% 1.0 -0.5 11.0% VORTICITY 1.7 1.8 6.9% 1.4 1.6 15.5% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 7.1 15.6% 18.4 6.4 23.4% RH 73.1 71.6 -0.1% 70.9 69.4 2.8% GOES 29.1 6.5 0.3% 29.3 6.5 0.2% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.4% 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