* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL932021 09/13/21 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 10% 11% LAT (deg N) 17.6 17.4 17.2 17.1 17.0 17.0 17.8 19.5 22.0 24.3 26.0 26.7 27.0 LON (deg W) 29.6 30.9 32.0 32.9 33.5 34.4 35.3 36.4 37.3 37.7 37.6 37.3 37.1 DTL (km) 1328 1457 1568 1659 1726 1824 1926 2033 2105 2142 2143 2125 2115 TRACK SOURCE TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 10% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 11% 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 1.3 1.1% 1.0 1.3 2.1% VORTICITY 1.7 1.1 2.2% 1.4 0.3 2.7% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 22.9 4.2% 18.4 30.3 4.2% RH 73.1 50.3 0.0% 70.9 44.2 0.0% GOES 29.1 3.8 0.1% 29.3 3.8 0.0% DVORAK 0.8 1.0 2.2% 0.8 1.0 2.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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