Although there was considerable severe weather today across the High Plains, today was primarily a training and orientation day.  Different from last week, the forecasters received their GOES-R training first, and then did a short IOP to look for convective initiation signals.  After dinner, we picked up with the MRMS training and a “practice” IOP over the Norman area with only one experimental SVR warning issued.

The first taste of GOES-R CI products was had over the DDC and AMA forecast areas.  There was discussion about whether the CI product should be made more liberal in its detections, but the result might be more false alarms.  If the product were probabilistic, that could be viewed completely differently, with corresponding false-alarm rates for corresponding uncertainties.  There is more information posted at the GOES-R HWT Blog.

Greg Stumpf (EWP2010 Operations Coordinator)