* 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% 69% LAT (deg N) 13.4 13.3 13.1 12.8 12.6 12.0 12.1 12.4 12.5 12.6 14.2 16.0 17.3 LON (deg W) 119.9 120.6 121.4 122.2 122.9 123.8 125.0 125.6 127.1 127.8 127.9 127.9 128.9 DTL (km) 1485 1546 1613 1691 1755 1869 1945 1964 2072 2121 2014 1867 1842 TRACK SOURCE AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 AP11 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 65% is 1.5 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 69% is 1.2 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 -3.1 7.2% -2.0 -0.3 5.7% VORTICITY 1.6 2.0 17.3% 1.5 1.9 18.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 8.0 17.0% 14.9 11.3 27.9% RH 79.1 79.4 9.1% 74.8 77.4 6.7% GOES 42.9 13.7 2.4% 42.8 13.7 2.0% DVORAK 0.9 1.5 11.8% 0.9 1.5 8.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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