Live Blog – 20 May 2008 (6:24pm)

New storm developing ahead (SE) of our current storm developing on converging surface boundaries. Steve has been resistant to issuing a new warning on this because it is covered by the swath from the upstream storm.

Discussion ensued regarding how this best should be handled. Steve recalls a storm-based warning where two adjacent areas were warned on several minutes apart and received complaints that the users in the broad area were already warned, why are they getting it again?

Ryan suggests that these are different storms, with different probs and different times of arrival. Steve agrees to issue a low-prob broad area for the new storm.

Kevin Manross (Gridded Warning Cognizant Scientist)

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