* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL932019 07/13/19 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 25% 39% LAT (deg N) 10.0 10.2 10.1 10.0 9.9 9.5 9.4 9.5 9.9 10.3 11.0 11.9 12.8 LON (deg W) 39.5 41.2 43.0 44.8 46.6 50.3 53.2 56.3 60.0 64.1 68.3 72.4 76.7 DTL (km) 1411 1293 1126 970 833 555 422 334 117 -24 6 26 276 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 25% is 0.8 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 39% is 0.9 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 1.2 2.3% 1.0 1.1 4.8% VORTICITY 1.7 1.2 4.9% 1.4 1.1 9.9% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 9.6 13.0% 18.4 10.3 17.2% RH 73.1 74.6 -0.1% 70.9 68.1 2.1% GOES 29.1 11.1 0.4% 29.3 11.1 0.3% DVORAK 0.8 1.0 4.4% 0.8 1.0 4.8% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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