* 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 44% 70% LAT (deg N) 13.3 13.5 13.1 13.1 13.0 13.2 12.9 12.5 12.0 11.4 11.8 12.1 12.4 LON (deg W) 120.5 120.8 122.0 122.9 123.6 124.7 126.3 128.2 130.2 131.9 133.5 135.5 137.7 DTL (km) 1538 1540 1652 1712 1769 1832 1978 2161 2363 2539 2434 2221 1990 TRACK SOURCE AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 AP26 TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 44% is 1.0 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 70% 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 5.8% -2.0 -1.6 9.1% VORTICITY 1.6 1.3 10.3% 1.5 1.4 15.1% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 12.9 10.8% 14.9 10.1 28.7% RH 79.1 74.6 5.9% 74.8 76.3 6.5% GOES 42.9 13.7 1.9% 42.8 13.7 2.0% DVORAK 0.9 1.5 9.3% 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