* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP032021 06/16/21 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 21% 21% LAT (deg N) 6.7 6.6 6.6 6.6 6.7 6.8 7.0 7.5 8.2 9.4 10.5 11.2 11.5 LON (deg W) 135.2 135.5 135.8 136.1 136.4 137.1 137.9 139.0 140.3 141.8 143.6 145.6 147.9 DTL (km) 2550 2530 2508 2481 2448 2382 2298 2171 2001 1793 1568 1352 1150 TRACK SOURCE TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 21% is 0.5 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 21% is 0.4 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 -1.0 2.0% -2.0 1.2 0.9% VORTICITY 1.6 0.8 4.4% 1.5 -0.2 1.0% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 7.5 8.2% 14.9 9.1 14.1% RH 79.1 71.5 3.0% 74.8 69.0 2.5% GOES 42.9 6.9 0.5% 42.8 6.9 0.5% DVORAK 0.9 1.0 3.3% 0.9 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