* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL952021 11/01/21 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 10% 13% LAT (deg N) 14.4 15.0 15.6 16.2 16.8 17.8 18.8 20.1 21.9 24.0 25.8 27.4 28.7 LON (deg W) 33.5 34.3 35.4 36.5 37.6 39.1 39.2 38.6 37.3 35.2 33.0 31.2 29.9 DTL (km) 1721 1804 1921 2040 2057 2027 2110 2251 2104 1886 1687 1559 1495 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 10% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 13% 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 0.1 1.9% 1.0 0.2 3.4% VORTICITY 1.7 0.7 1.8% 1.4 0.1 2.3% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 22.2 4.3% 18.4 26.8 4.9% RH 73.1 54.7 0.0% 70.9 55.0 0.4% GOES 29.1 13.0 0.2% 29.3 13.0 0.2% DVORAK 0.8 1.0 2.2% 0.8 1.0 2.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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