* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL942023 07/13/23 12 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 55% 88% LAT (deg N) 31.8 32.1 32.4 32.7 33.1 34.2 35.8 37.2 38.0 38.2 38.0 37.1 35.8 LON (deg W) 48.8 48.0 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.3 48.3 48.2 47.3 45.1 42.8 41.5 41.5 DTL (km) 1696 1680 1648 1613 1567 1447 1275 1130 1077 1149 1284 1434 1551 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 55% is 1.8 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 88% is 2.0 times the sample mean ( 43%) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIVIDUAL PREDICTOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PROBABILITY OF GENESIS ******* 48-HR ****** ******* 120-HR ****** AVG TCGI CONT AVG TCGI CONT DIVERGENCE -1.0 -0.8 7.8% 1.0 -0.4 12.6% VORTICITY 1.7 4.4 18.9% 1.4 3.9 35.5% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 19.5 15.0% 18.4 11.9 23.9% RH 73.1 62.5 -0.1% 70.9 64.4 2.6% GOES 29.1 22.3 1.2% 29.3 22.3 0.9% DVORAK 0.8 1.5 12.0% 0.8 1.5 12.0% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 2.1, February 2018