* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP992021 07/27/21 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 22% 62% LAT (deg N) 12.6 12.7 12.8 13.0 13.0 12.9 12.5 12.2 11.8 11.2 11.1 10.5 10.3 LON (deg W) 117.0 117.4 118.0 118.6 119.5 121.7 124.2 126.1 127.4 129.6 133.4 136.2 137.7 DTL (km) 1363 1377 1405 1427 1489 1650 1854 2018 2150 2372 2476 2232 2101 TRACK SOURCE AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 AP17 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 22% is 0.5 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 62% 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 -0.7 1.8% -2.0 -2.0 9.4% VORTICITY 1.6 1.2 6.0% 1.5 1.7 16.3% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 7.6 8.4% 14.9 10.0 26.7% RH 79.1 72.4 3.2% 74.8 76.1 6.0% GOES 42.9 18.8 1.7% 42.8 18.8 2.7% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 1.0% 0.9 0.5 1.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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