* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL932021 09/12/21 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 9% 14% LAT (deg N) 16.5 17.2 17.5 17.1 17.1 16.5 16.5 16.8 18.5 17.3 16.6 16.1 15.9 LON (deg W) 26.5 27.2 28.1 28.9 29.3 30.2 31.0 33.0 35.3 38.2 41.1 44.1 46.6 DTL (km) 981 1069 1170 1244 1286 1371 1456 1672 1933 2057 1782 1543 1372 TRACK SOURCE AP22 AP22 AP22 AP22 AP22 AP22 AP22 AP22 AP22 TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 9% 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 2.2 0.5% 1.0 1.1 2.3% VORTICITY 1.7 1.4 2.7% 1.4 0.7 3.7% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 16.0 5.4% 18.4 18.9 6.5% RH 73.1 60.9 0.0% 70.9 50.5 0.2% GOES 29.1 14.4 0.2% 29.3 14.4 0.2% 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