Today we start week 8 of the 2010 EWP.  Our visitors are Frank Alsheimer (WFO Charleston, SC), Dan Darbe (WFO Atlanta/Peachtree City, GA), Daniel Nietfeld (WFO Omaha, NE), Pat Spoden (WFO Paducah, KY), and Andy Taylor (Norman, OK).

We will start with training the forecasters on the new products they will see.  Training will start with GOES-R products (CI & Overshooting Tops-Thermal Couplet), followed immediately by LMA/GLM training.  We will take a break an then do MRMS training likely followed by observing realtime products to get the forecasters used to looking at the data.

Regarding today’s outlook.  There is a large slight risk area across the Central & High Plains stretching west across the WY/CO border and terminating in the northern half of Utah.

There is not strong confidence in getting much in the way of SVR in the OK domain today (the best chance of SVR among all the possible domains).  We will likely run our Introductory IOP in our Floater Domain and likely set that near NE CO/SW NE / SE WY where there is currently an MD as this entry is being typed.

Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)