* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL042019 08/24/19 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 8% 11% LAT (deg N) 35.5 35.2 35.2 35.2 35.5 36.0 36.5 36.9 37.4 38.0 38.8 40.2 41.8 LON (deg W) 41.3 41.9 42.5 43.0 43.2 43.5 43.4 43.0 42.5 41.8 41.0 40.2 39.5 DTL (km) 1589 1586 1557 1533 1495 1433 1390 1373 1353 1340 1321 1266 1211 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 8% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 11% is 0.3 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 0.4 1.7% 1.0 0.3 3.3% VORTICITY 1.7 -0.3 0.7% 1.4 -0.8 0.0% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 16.4 5.3% 18.4 16.2 7.1% RH 73.1 53.0 0.0% 70.9 53.6 0.3% GOES 29.1 0.0 0.0% 29.3 0.0 0.0% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 0.6% 0.8 0.5 0.7% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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