Although we anticipate working through a number of archive cases on all 4 projects today, we have decided to jump on the opportunity for a real-time IOP in Florida, where ongoing thunderstorms and others later this afternoon will carry threats for tornadoes and marginally severe hail.

The team of Mike and Rob will take on this IOP once the HWT becomes initialized to the Tampa Bay CWA.  On the other side of the room, the team of Les and Matthew will work with the CASA project leads, and our guest, Ed Cravens, the emergency manager for McClain County, Oklahoma.  Ed’s presence this afternoon really represents an effort to bring end users into the research and development phase of new weather-related technologies.  The CASA group will perform warning operations using an archived data set.

Patrick Burke (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 18-22 May 2009)