* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL942021 06/15/21 12 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 36% 56% LAT (deg N) 7.3 7.2 7.9 8.0 8.2 9.3 9.2 8.5 9.8 10.6 11.3 12.1 12.9 LON (deg W) 25.9 27.3 29.0 30.6 32.1 36.4 42.6 46.7 50.1 52.9 55.8 58.5 61.1 DTL (km) 1135 1277 1417 1560 1513 1413 1104 706 595 563 517 309 236 TRACK SOURCE AP29 AP29 AP29 AP29 AP29 AP29 AP29 AP29 TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 36% is 1.2 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 56% is 1.3 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 -2.3 9.0% 1.0 -1.9 15.7% VORTICITY 1.7 1.8 8.1% 1.4 1.2 13.2% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 8.5 17.5% 18.4 10.2 21.7% RH 73.1 78.6 -0.2% 70.9 76.0 3.3% GOES 29.1 0.0 0.0% 29.3 0.0 0.0% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.6% 0.8 0.5 1.7% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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