* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP992021 07/28/21 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 14% 24% LAT (deg N) 12.7 13.1 13.5 13.8 14.1 13.6 13.2 13.6 14.4 14.5 14.1 13.6 13.0 LON (deg W) 117.5 118.2 118.7 119.3 120.0 122.2 124.3 125.8 127.5 129.0 130.9 133.4 136.0 DTL (km) 1383 1391 1390 1408 1436 1621 1803 1885 1966 2065 2245 2377 2127 TRACK SOURCE AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 14% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 24% 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 0.2 1.0% -2.0 0.0 2.3% VORTICITY 1.6 0.7 3.5% 1.5 0.9 5.1% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 16.8 4.3% 14.9 16.1 11.7% RH 79.1 72.6 2.6% 74.8 74.1 2.8% GOES 42.9 27.0 2.0% 42.8 27.0 1.9% 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