* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP952019 10/05/19 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 18% 18% LAT (deg N) 16.5 17.0 17.4 17.9 18.2 19.5 22.1 23.9 26.5 28.7 29.8 29.8 29.7 LON (deg W) 129.6 130.1 130.6 131.7 132.2 133.7 132.4 132.3 131.6 130.0 127.4 124.5 121.1 DTL (km) 1958 1961 1973 2033 2057 2115 1827 1663 1410 1123 858 660 473 TRACK SOURCE AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 AP20 TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 18% is 0.4 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 18% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 56%) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIVIDUAL PREDICTOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROBABILITY OF GENESIS ******* 48-HR ****** ******* 120-HR ****** AVG TCGI CONT AVG TCGI CONT DIVERGENCE -2.0 2.1 0.0% -2.0 1.4 0.8% VORTICITY 1.6 0.5 3.3% 1.5 -0.2 1.3% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 7.7 7.1% 14.9 25.7 10.4% RH 79.1 71.8 2.6% 74.8 47.5 0.6% GOES 42.9 26.8 2.1% 42.8 26.8 2.2% DVORAK 0.9 1.0 2.8% 0.9 1.0 2.6% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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