* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL942021 06/15/21 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 15% 15% LAT (deg N) 7.4 8.7 9.7 9.5 9.0 8.7 10.1 10.7 11.8 12.7 13.4 13.7 14.2 LON (deg W) 23.8 25.2 28.2 30.4 32.7 36.5 39.5 42.6 45.1 47.5 50.0 52.9 56.0 DTL (km) 933 996 1274 1514 1550 1346 1421 1201 1099 1022 960 898 659 TRACK SOURCE AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 AP08 TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 15% is 0.5 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 15% 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 0.7 2.1% 1.0 1.4 1.9% VORTICITY 1.7 1.8 4.2% 1.4 0.6 3.5% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 12.4 8.2% 18.4 12.3 7.9% RH 73.1 72.0 -0.1% 70.9 70.7 1.2% GOES 29.1 1.9 0.0% 29.3 1.9 0.0% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 0.9% 0.8 0.5 0.7% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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