* 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 65% 88% LAT (deg N) 13.6 13.9 13.7 13.3 13.3 13.5 13.5 14.2 15.1 17.2 19.6 19.6 20.2 LON (deg W) 118.5 119.4 120.5 121.1 121.2 121.8 123.0 123.1 123.1 122.9 125.9 126.6 127.5 DTL (km) 1368 1408 1503 1577 1583 1603 1684 1633 1560 1386 1435 1491 1524 TRACK SOURCE AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 AP10 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 65% is 1.5 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 88% is 1.6 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 -3.0 7.1% -2.0 -0.7 7.8% VORTICITY 1.6 2.2 18.9% 1.5 2.6 27.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 9.3 16.1% 14.9 9.0 33.4% RH 79.1 79.2 9.0% 74.8 77.1 7.6% GOES 42.9 13.7 2.4% 42.8 13.7 2.3% DVORAK 0.9 1.5 11.8% 0.9 1.5 9.5% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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