* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL932021 09/12/21 12 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 10% 14% LAT (deg N) 16.9 17.3 17.2 17.4 17.5 17.3 17.7 18.7 20.6 24.2 24.9 25.1 24.4 LON (deg W) 25.5 26.6 27.4 28.1 28.7 29.7 31.3 33.1 35.7 37.5 38.7 39.8 40.7 DTL (km) 886 1010 1090 1167 1232 1332 1507 1702 1943 2119 2245 2355 2446 TRACK SOURCE AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 10% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 14% is 0.3 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 2.0 0.7% 1.0 1.3 2.0% VORTICITY 1.7 2.3 3.6% 1.4 1.0 4.5% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 16.4 5.3% 18.4 19.3 6.4% RH 73.1 62.1 0.0% 70.9 57.3 0.5% GOES 29.1 7.6 0.1% 29.3 7.6 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