* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP962021 07/14/21 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 37% 40% LAT (deg N) 14.9 15.5 16.1 16.5 16.8 17.4 17.8 18.0 17.8 17.3 16.6 15.8 15.4 LON (deg W) 112.6 114.1 115.6 117.0 118.4 120.9 123.4 125.7 127.9 130.2 132.6 135.3 138.4 DTL (km) 925 927 962 1023 1087 1210 1388 1547 1727 1945 2195 2102 1794 TRACK SOURCE TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 37% is 0.8 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 40% is 0.7 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 -0.6 2.6% -2.0 0.5 2.6% VORTICITY 1.6 0.7 6.1% 1.5 0.8 7.1% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 9.4 11.4% 14.9 12.2 18.7% RH 79.1 69.8 4.0% 74.8 60.6 2.4% GOES 42.9 33.4 4.6% 42.8 33.4 3.5% DVORAK 0.9 1.5 8.3% 0.9 1.5 5.7% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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