* ATLANTIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * AL992022 12/06/22 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 45% 52% LAT (deg N) 26.9 27.1 28.5 29.8 31.0 32.0 30.0 26.8 25.5 25.9 26.4 27.2 27.5 LON (deg W) 54.6 53.2 52.2 51.2 52.1 54.5 56.2 54.5 49.4 42.9 38.1 33.7 27.2 DTL (km) 1486 1611 1783 1885 1746 1577 1618 1487 1861 2485 2202 1798 1204 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TABM TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 45% is 1.5 times the sample mean ( 30%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 52% is 1.2 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 -6.4 17.4% 1.0 -1.9 14.9% VORTICITY 1.7 6.3 19.8% 1.4 3.9 29.4% VERTICAL SHEAR 16.3 36.9 4.7% 18.4 46.6 2.1% RH 73.1 75.0 -0.2% 70.9 69.9 2.8% GOES 29.1 34.2 1.7% 29.3 34.2 1.1% DVORAK 0.8 0.5 1.8% 0.8 0.5 1.7% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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