* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL992022 09/26/22 00 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 35% 36% LAT (deg N) 14.6 14.8 14.8 14.8 14.6 14.5 15.0 16.1 17.5 19.1 21.2 23.8 26.5 LON (deg W) 36.2 36.4 36.6 36.7 36.8 37.0 37.1 37.2 37.7 38.3 39.0 39.1 38.3 DTL (km) 1987 2002 1998 1985 1970 1943 1966 2039 2105 2190 2284 2286 2225 TRACK SOURCE TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 35% is 1.2 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 36% is 0.8 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 -1.8 8.0% 1.0 -1.3 10.4% VORTICITY 1.7 1.7 7.5% 1.4 1.0 9.0% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 7.0 17.9% 18.4 18.1 13.0% RH 73.1 66.8 -0.1% 70.9 67.7 2.0% GOES 29.1 8.9 0.4% 29.3 8.9 0.2% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.6% 0.8 0.5 1.3% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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