* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP992020 07/19/20 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 31% 31% LAT (deg N) 14.0 14.7 15.4 16.0 16.7 17.5 17.6 17.6 17.2 16.9 17.2 17.7 18.8 LON (deg W) 125.6 126.5 127.4 128.0 128.6 130.5 132.2 134.4 136.5 139.3 142.3 146.3 147.1 DTL (km) 1839 1861 1881 1875 1864 1958 2096 2159 1946 1661 1342 917 816 TRACK SOURCE AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 AP13 TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 31% is 0.7 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 31% is 0.5 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 0.2 1.6% -2.0 0.4 2.3% VORTICITY 1.6 1.2 7.8% 1.5 0.9 6.2% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 4.5 12.1% 14.9 10.1 16.0% RH 79.1 75.5 4.8% 74.8 70.9 3.1% GOES 42.9 28.2 3.3% 42.8 28.2 2.4% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 1.2% 0.9 0.5 0.8% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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