We spent most of the day, as usual for a Monday, training our new set of visitors about the various data sets we will be working with this week.  After wards, we conductive a “semi” intensive operations period with one workstation pair devoted to the central Oklahoma data, and the associate special total lightning products.  The other workstation pair was devoted to the LUB WFO, looking as a few severe storms there.  This was a very low key IOP, designed primarily to give the new forecasters some familiarity with the new products and issue a few practice warnings.  Nothing of real significance occurred in either CWA.  Finally, the forecasters took both the “pre-operations” MRMS survey which inventories several aspects of their warning decision practices, and the lightning survey.

Greg Stumpf (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 14-18 June 2010)