* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP972019 07/20/19 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 60% 85% LAT (deg N) 11.6 11.3 11.5 11.6 12.0 13.0 14.6 16.8 18.3 19.3 20.3 21.4 22.2 LON (deg W) 115.0 116.2 116.4 116.6 116.9 117.3 117.4 117.9 119.0 120.1 121.0 122.0 122.9 DTL (km) 1363 1447 1437 1437 1414 1343 1207 1062 1000 1009 1023 1002 1010 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 60% is 1.4 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 85% is 1.5 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 4.1% -2.0 0.3 4.7% VORTICITY 1.6 2.8 21.2% 1.5 2.9 29.5% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 16.5 10.5% 14.9 13.5 29.9% RH 79.1 82.8 9.8% 74.8 80.2 7.6% GOES 42.9 64.4 12.1% 42.8 64.4 11.3% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 1.9% 0.9 0.5 1.5% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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