* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP992021 07/30/21 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 75% 92% LAT (deg N) 13.3 13.3 13.3 13.1 13.0 13.1 13.4 13.7 14.0 14.2 14.3 13.9 12.8 LON (deg W) 123.8 124.2 124.6 125.0 125.0 125.3 125.3 126.1 126.6 127.1 127.1 128.3 129.5 DTL (km) 1758 1787 1817 1863 1871 1885 1862 1901 1920 1946 1941 2065 2240 TRACK SOURCE AP25 AP25 AP25 AP25 AP25 AP25 AP25 AP25 AP25 AP25 TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 75% is 1.7 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 92% 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 -1.0 4.5% -2.0 -1.2 9.0% VORTICITY 1.6 3.0 24.5% 1.5 3.0 30.0% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 10.9 15.7% 14.9 13.8 29.4% RH 79.1 78.9 9.3% 74.8 79.5 7.8% GOES 42.9 16.9 3.2% 42.8 16.9 2.8% DVORAK 0.9 2.0 17.5% 0.9 2.0 13.0% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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