We finished a first training exercise using live data in southern NM around 5:30 pm and have moved to issuing warnings on two separate storms in NM. Team 1, Mark and Brad (on Moore), concentrating on the hail threat near Los Alamos. Team 2, Kevin and Eric (on Higgins), are looking at both the hail and tornado threat in southeastern Santa Fe.

Team 2 have noticed that threat areas can be a bit ahead of radar / mesh output as update times 1min for the former, 5 min for the latter. Both teams have discussed how often should update product, see it as a continuous product that you don’t have to wait until the end of the “warning” to update/reissue.

Kristin Kuhlman (Gridded Warning Cognizant Scientist)