* NE PACIFIC TC GENESIS INDEX * * GFS VERSION * * CP912024 09/23/24 18 UTC * TIME (hr) 0 6 12 18 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 Prob of Genesis 15% 20% LAT (deg N) 12.1 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.4 12.0 11.6 11.2 10.9 11.0 11.2 11.6 12.5 LON (deg W) 142.8 143.2 144.2 145.2 146.5 148.5 149.6 151.1 153.3 155.4 157.4 158.8 159.7 DTL (km) 1523 1469 1373 1280 1186 1071 1035 982 922 878 877 876 838 TRACK SOURCE AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI AVNI TABM TABM TCGI 0-48h Genesis Forecast: 15% 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 2.4 0.0% -2.0 2.2 0.0% VORTICITY 1.6 1.1 4.6% 1.5 0.8 4.4% VERTICAL SHEAR 12.9 17.8 4.0% 14.9 17.8 10.7% RH 79.1 80.9 3.8% 74.8 77.3 2.9% GOES 42.9 20.2 1.5% 42.8 20.2 1.4% DVORAK 0.9 0.5 0.8% 0.9 0.5 0.6% --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: PHFO Version 2.1, February 2018