* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP982019 07/19/19 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 15% 20% LAT (deg N) 11.9 12.5 13.3 14.2 15.2 16.6 17.1 17.1 16.8 16.4 15.7 15.1 14.6 LON (deg W) 131.9 132.8 133.4 133.8 134.0 133.7 133.4 133.7 134.6 135.8 137.4 139.2 140.8 DTL (km) 2498 2478 2383 2306 2254 2251 2230 2242 2157 2041 1892 1730 1584 TRACK SOURCE TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 15% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 20% is 0.4 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 1.6 0.2% -2.0 2.0 0.0% VORTICITY 1.6 0.0 1.8% 1.5 -0.2 1.1% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 16.6 4.3% 14.9 12.1 12.1% RH 79.1 76.6 3.2% 74.8 70.9 2.4% GOES 42.9 54.3 4.2% 42.8 54.3 3.8% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 0.8% 0.9 0.5 0.6% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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