* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP972021 07/17/21 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 67% 95% LAT (deg N) 14.4 15.0 15.4 15.7 15.9 16.2 16.4 16.6 16.9 17.0 17.0 17.0 17.1 LON (deg W) 105.5 107.1 108.6 110.0 110.9 112.6 114.3 116.5 119.1 121.5 123.8 125.9 127.8 DTL (km) 490 531 584 672 735 792 850 975 1126 1289 1475 1641 1772 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 67% is 1.5 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 95% is 1.7 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 -1.8 5.4% -2.0 -1.4 9.3% VORTICITY 1.6 3.4 26.6% 1.5 4.1 39.0% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 11.9 14.5% 14.9 10.7 30.4% RH 79.1 86.8 7.8% 74.8 84.0 5.8% GOES 42.9 52.4 10.4% 42.8 52.4 8.8% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 2.0% 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