* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP922021 06/05/21 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 40% 59% LAT (deg N) 12.5 12.0 12.5 13.0 13.0 12.9 12.7 12.3 11.9 11.5 11.3 11.6 12.1 LON (deg W) 106.7 107.9 107.5 108.3 109.0 110.0 111.3 112.9 114.9 117.9 120.1 122.5 125.4 DTL (km) 738 853 783 788 825 895 1002 1156 1328 1519 1676 1819 1974 TRACK SOURCE AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 AP21 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 40% is 0.9 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 59% is 1.1 times the sample mean ( 56%) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIVIDUAL PREDICTOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROBABILITY OF GENESIS ******* 48-HR ****** ******* 120-HR ****** AVG TCGI CONT AVG TCGI CONT DIVERGENCE -2.0 -0.8 2.9% -2.0 -0.6 5.9% VORTICITY 1.6 0.9 7.6% 1.5 1.3 12.5% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 5.3 13.9% 14.9 7.8 27.0% RH 79.1 78.0 6.4% 74.8 74.7 5.6% GOES 42.9 49.7 7.2% 42.8 49.7 7.0% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 1.5% 0.9 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