* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP992021 07/29/21 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 54% 81% LAT (deg N) 13.4 13.3 13.3 13.5 13.5 13.4 12.9 12.1 11.4 11.7 13.4 16.8 21.5 LON (deg W) 120.1 120.6 121.2 121.9 122.5 123.2 124.1 125.4 126.1 125.7 126.1 126.4 126.8 DTL (km) 1500 1546 1583 1610 1650 1707 1813 1974 2083 2029 1924 1693 1382 TRACK SOURCE AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 AP01 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 54% is 1.2 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 81% is 1.4 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 -1.6 4.5% -2.0 -1.1 8.5% VORTICITY 1.6 1.8 14.6% 1.5 2.1 21.9% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 8.9 14.8% 14.9 8.8 32.1% RH 79.1 76.9 7.4% 74.8 77.3 7.3% GOES 42.9 13.7 2.2% 42.8 13.7 2.2% DVORAK 0.9 1.5 10.6% 0.9 1.5 9.1% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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