* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP972019 07/21/19 12 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 72% 88% LAT (deg N) 12.4 12.7 13.3 13.9 14.6 16.3 18.0 19.3 20.1 20.8 21.8 22.8 23.6 LON (deg W) 115.7 116.0 116.1 116.2 116.1 116.1 116.2 117.0 117.9 118.4 119.0 119.7 120.6 DTL (km) 1313 1299 1246 1194 1123 972 844 779 776 766 760 729 729 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 72% is 1.7 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 88% 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 1.2 1.2% -2.0 1.6 1.1% VORTICITY 1.6 2.8 23.4% 1.5 2.4 26.3% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 18.9 9.8% 14.9 13.0 30.8% RH 79.1 82.8 10.7% 74.8 77.3 7.6% GOES 42.9 71.6 14.8% 42.8 71.6 12.9% DVORAK 0.9 1.5 12.3% 0.9 1.5 9.5% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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