* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL902021 05/22/21 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 19% 19% LAT (deg N) 35.2 33.9 32.3 30.9 29.7 28.3 27.8 28.0 28.3 29.2 30.0 30.2 29.7 LON (deg W) 65.6 67.1 68.1 68.4 68.3 66.8 63.2 58.1 53.3 49.1 45.4 42.2 40.0 DTL (km) 836 822 805 859 949 1009 1076 1327 1687 1971 1975 2059 2215 TRACK SOURCE TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 19% is 0.6 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 19% is 0.4 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 0.6 2.5% 1.0 0.3 5.5% VORTICITY 1.7 1.3 3.9% 1.4 0.0 3.2% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 24.9 6.1% 18.4 41.4 3.2% RH 73.1 44.6 0.0% 70.9 47.6 0.1% GOES 29.1 0.7 0.0% 29.3 0.7 0.0% DVORAK 0.8 1.5 6.0% 0.8 1.5 6.7% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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