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Dan Halperin did more testing of the tc_gen tool with the met-9.1_beta3 development release and found a bug. tc_gen is not identifying genesis at the correct point for BEST tracks. Test this using bal022019.dat. The BEST track genesis is identified when the storm is a disturbance (category=DB) rather than the correct time when it is a tropical depression (category=TD), as requested in the TC-Gen configuration file:

best_genesis = {
   technique   = "BEST";
   category    = [ "TD", "TS" ];
   vmax_thresh = NA;
   mslp_thresh = NA;
}

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• Select engineer(s) or no engineer required: John Halley Gotway
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