* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * EP032024 08/06/24 06 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 13% 20% LAT (deg N) 20.5 20.3 20.1 19.9 19.5 18.8 18.4 17.8 16.4 15.0 14.6 15.7 16.8 LON (deg W) 128.8 129.4 130.1 130.8 131.4 132.1 132.5 132.9 132.8 131.7 130.4 130.0 130.8 DTL (km) 1617 1682 1756 1830 1907 2011 2071 2144 2227 2237 2167 2050 2032 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 13% is 0.3 times the sample mean ( 44%) TCGI 0-120h Genesis Forecast: 20% is 0.4 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 1.6 0.2% -2.0 1.1 0.9% VORTICITY 1.6 1.9 6.6% 1.5 1.2 5.8% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 21.4 3.0% 14.9 18.7 10.4% RH 79.1 56.7 0.4% 74.8 53.7 1.0% GOES 42.9 2.2 0.0% 42.8 2.2 0.1% DVORAK 0.9 1.0 2.7% 0.9 1.0 2.1% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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