* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP992021 07/28/21 12 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 57% 85% LAT (deg N) 12.9 13.3 13.5 13.6 13.0 13.0 12.5 12.9 13.3 14.0 15.2 15.3 13.5 LON (deg W) 118.9 119.5 120.4 121.4 121.8 122.1 124.4 124.3 124.4 125.5 127.8 130.8 135.2 DTL (km) 1456 1464 1515 1568 1648 1667 1868 1827 1802 1831 1926 2143 2192 TRACK SOURCE AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 AP30 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 57% is 1.3 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 85% is 1.5 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 -2.1 5.4% -2.0 -1.0 8.5% VORTICITY 1.6 1.4 12.6% 1.5 2.0 21.7% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 7.6 16.1% 14.9 6.6 34.4% RH 79.1 78.7 8.2% 74.8 76.4 7.3% GOES 42.9 21.4 3.7% 42.8 21.4 3.7% DVORAK 0.9 1.5 10.9% 0.9 1.5 9.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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