* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL122019 09/28/19 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 10% 14% LAT (deg N) 31.0 31.1 31.1 30.9 30.7 30.6 30.7 30.5 30.0 28.8 27.6 27.1 27.2 LON (deg W) 55.9 55.5 55.2 55.3 55.7 56.6 56.9 56.5 55.5 54.1 53.1 53.1 52.9 DTL (km) 1623 1640 1652 1663 1665 1635 1615 1648 1663 1659 1648 1620 1642 TRACK SOURCE TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 10% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 14% is 0.3 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 -0.1 2.0% 1.0 0.1 3.5% VORTICITY 1.7 0.3 1.4% 1.4 -0.1 1.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 30.4 2.8% 18.4 34.8 3.3% RH 73.1 63.4 0.0% 70.9 64.0 0.8% GOES 29.1 22.6 0.4% 29.3 22.6 0.3% DVORAK 0.8 1.5 3.8% 0.8 1.5 4.0% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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