* 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 17% 25% LAT (deg N) 12.4 12.6 12.8 12.9 13.5 13.2 13.4 13.4 13.0 13.3 13.8 13.1 12.5 LON (deg W) 116.9 117.5 117.7 118.6 119.8 121.7 123.0 123.9 126.4 128.6 130.3 132.4 135.8 DTL (km) 1376 1392 1386 1435 1470 1623 1693 1757 1979 2136 2223 2439 2173 TRACK SOURCE AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 AP19 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 17% is 0.4 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 25% 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 0.1 1.1% -2.0 0.1 2.2% VORTICITY 1.6 1.1 4.6% 1.5 1.0 5.4% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 10.6 6.0% 14.9 13.7 12.4% RH 79.1 76.4 3.2% 74.8 73.6 2.8% GOES 42.9 18.8 1.4% 42.8 18.8 1.3% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 0.8% 0.9 0.5 0.6% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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