* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL992022 09/25/22 12 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 26% 45% LAT (deg N) 13.9 14.2 14.2 14.2 14.1 13.9 13.8 14.1 14.7 15.6 16.7 17.9 19.2 LON (deg W) 35.8 35.8 35.8 35.9 36.0 36.3 36.4 36.3 36.4 36.8 37.5 38.8 40.2 DTL (km) 1923 1956 1956 1953 1940 1911 1897 1932 1995 2034 2057 2056 2073 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 26% is 0.9 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 45% is 1.0 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 -1.1 5.4% 1.0 -0.8 10.4% VORTICITY 1.7 1.3 5.2% 1.4 1.1 10.6% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 8.8 13.6% 18.4 9.6 19.1% RH 73.1 72.5 -0.1% 70.9 72.1 2.8% GOES 29.1 5.6 0.2% 29.3 5.6 0.2% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.3% 0.8 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