* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL952021 06/29/21 12 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 61% 72% LAT (deg N) 11.9 12.1 12.2 12.2 12.4 12.6 13.1 13.9 14.4 14.9 15.2 15.5 15.9 LON (deg W) 49.3 51.1 52.9 54.7 56.5 59.8 63.4 67.0 71.2 75.6 79.9 83.7 87.1 DTL (km) 841 777 730 667 523 236 267 333 220 330 354 22 11 TRACK SOURCE TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 61% is 2.0 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 72% is 1.7 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 11.7% 1.0 -0.7 13.0% VORTICITY 1.7 2.2 11.8% 1.4 1.8 18.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 6.0 24.0% 18.4 9.3 24.6% RH 73.1 74.5 -0.2% 70.9 70.0 3.3% GOES 29.1 14.7 0.9% 29.3 14.7 0.5% DVORAK 0.8 1.5 12.7% 0.8 1.5 11.6% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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