* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL912021 08/04/21 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 12% 31% LAT (deg N) 16.4 16.8 17.4 17.8 18.1 18.7 19.1 19.4 19.4 19.5 19.4 19.6 19.9 LON (deg W) 24.8 25.5 25.7 26.1 26.6 28.1 30.5 33.4 36.4 39.4 42.5 45.4 48.0 DTL (km) 801 883 921 975 1032 1190 1423 1716 2032 2145 1935 1800 1710 TRACK SOURCE AP22 AP22 AP22 AP22 TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 12% is 0.4 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 31% is 0.7 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 2.0 0.7% 1.0 1.0 4.4% VORTICITY 1.7 1.4 2.8% 1.4 0.9 7.7% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 8.7 7.2% 18.4 8.1 15.4% RH 73.1 75.7 -0.1% 70.9 73.0 2.2% GOES 29.1 14.9 0.3% 29.3 14.9 0.3% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 0.7% 0.8 0.5 1.2% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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