* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL932021 09/12/21 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 10% 16% LAT (deg N) 16.0 16.4 17.2 17.2 16.9 16.3 15.9 15.7 16.0 17.1 17.4 17.1 16.7 LON (deg W) 24.4 25.4 26.6 27.9 29.2 30.8 32.3 33.4 35.0 36.8 39.3 42.3 45.5 DTL (km) 751 864 1007 1142 1272 1433 1590 1707 1879 2077 1975 1755 1510 TRACK SOURCE AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 10% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 16% 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 2.3 0.4% 1.0 1.3 2.1% VORTICITY 1.7 2.2 3.5% 1.4 1.4 5.6% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 18.7 4.9% 18.4 17.5 6.9% RH 73.1 62.5 0.0% 70.9 52.5 0.3% GOES 29.1 6.6 0.1% 29.3 6.6 0.1% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 0.6% 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