Today we crammed!  Got the general orientation, WDSSII GUI, PAR, and CASA training in as quickly as possible in order to work an early IOP on the storms in Central OK.  Unfortunately, as soon as we were ready, the storms decided to fizzle out.  Therefore, we conducted a very short real-time IOP on the remaining convection using the PAR data.  There was one decent example of the descending reflectivity core that was highly resolved by the PAR data, but for the most part, there was little to be observed.

The rest of the evening was spent having the visiting forecasters go through a PAR archive case (T.S. Erin Aug 2007) to gather feedback.  We then completed the training sessions for the multi-radar/sensor applications and the LMA project during the final hour of the shift.

DY2 appears to be a West Texas event, and most likely our IOP will focus on the multi-radar/sensor applications.

Greg Stumpf (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 27 April – 1 May 2009)