Month: June 2010

Daily Summary – 9 June 2010

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Today we touched on all three sensor groups: GOES-R, pGLM, and MRMS.  For the second day in a row, we were dogged by cirrus that significantly limited our use of the GOES-R data, though we did have a few occasions where we could see an Overshooting Top.

We started off with Nashville’s CWA in an attempt to observe total lightning, as well as Huntsville’s CWA.  As the storms left Nashville, we switched to Birmingham during the dinner break.

There were a number of good questions from the forecasters to Geoff, which I’ll defer to his blog entries [enter blog link once we get it].

Technical Issues of the Day :

  • Archive Cases were running slow on the right ‘par’ machine.  Ben suggests it has to do with having so many products loaded (running multiple D2Ds) and the update needs to draw all those products at once slows the responsiveness
  • tupelo continues to have issues with warnings.  We ignored the error and issued anyway.  We need to see if they actually show.

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

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Live Blog – 9 June 2010 (8:10pm)

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As we keep situationaly aware of what what VORTEX2 is doing, we will be wrapping up operations in the next five minutes and ask the forecasters to take three post-event surveys (GOESR/pGLM/MRMS)

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

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Live Blog – 9 June 2010 (7:55pm)

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Pat, Dan D and Andy have switched from OHX to BMX since storms are leaving/affecting those areas, respectively.

Frank and Dan N are currently remaining with HUN, but we’re prepared to switch over to FFC if the weather dictates.  We will resume ops shortly after a pizza break.

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

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Live Blog – 9 June 2010 (5:05pm)

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We are about to transition from archive mode to warning ops.  Dan D and Dan N are finishing their archive work with a discussion with Geoff while Andy and Pat start looking at the Nashville (OHX) CWA making use of the pGLM data.  Frank is focusing on the MEG CWA, and is going to attempt to issue warnings using no single radar data.  We wish him well!

We will set Dan and Dan up with the HUN CWA where they can also make use of the live pGLM data.

It should be noted that we asked Lak to come down for a brief discussion about the lightning density products with Pat, Frank and Andy.  He helped to explain the product and its intended use.

We will consider a dinner break alternative shortly.

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

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Outlook – 9 June 2010

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We had a good discussion regarding last night’s events.  We started off with reviewing the GOES-R verification from CIMSS, actually for operations on the 7th and then the 8th.  We then moved to the MRMS review which prompted a good discussion on the use of divergence fields – particularly storm top divergence.  Chris showed a satellite div/vort field that is being jointly developed by CIMSS and NSSL via Bob Rabin.

As for today’s operations: We had hoped that we could perform realtime pGLM analyses using the NAL domain.  Early convection had suppressed that hope (excuse the pun) momentarily, but as the day continues, new/re development appears to be likely in the OHX/HUN areas which is advantageous to pGLM ops.

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

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Daily Summary – 8 June 2010

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Well, though there was plenty of convection in the area we targeted today, there was not a great deal of severe out of the storms.  In fact, SPC canceled their TOR watch.  We are ending our ops at 0115z (9 June) and will fill out surveys and spend some time discussing today’s event.

Surveys took a little longer than I expected (especially since we asked the forecasters to fill out both the MRMS & GOESR surveys) so we ended once the surveys were completed.

Technical Issues of the Day:

  • tupelo failed to allow warnings after the first couple were issued.  We continued to use it for analysis, but didn’t issue any more warnings on it the rest of the day.  Update: Ben says that a reboot of the machine should fix the issue we were seeing (something along the lines of “WRKOUNWRK1 Cannot Connect”)
  • Merged Products stopped updating on all workstations around 2340z.  Restarted the notification server on PX1 and that fixed the issue
  • pGLM/GOESR archie case failed to update GOESR products.  Ben fixed this during the exercise

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

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Live Blog – 8 June 2010 (6:10pm)

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We have Pat, Dan D and Frank on ‘higgins’ and ‘tupelo’ operating in the ICT CWA.  Andy and Dan N are on ‘moore’ and ‘plainfield’ issuing warnings in the TOP CWA.

Both MRMS and GOES-R products are being examined

We are having the teams split and do a dinner break in shifts to keep warnings ongoing.

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Live Blog – 8 June 2010 (3:35pm)

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Dan D, who is working the ICT CWA has a severe storm forming right near KICT.  He’s gone ahead and fired off a warning – so we’re off and running.  Our IOP area appears very “juiced”:

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

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Outlook – 8 June 2010

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We begin our first full day with a debrief/discussion from last night’s activities.  Dan D., Frank A., Pat S. Andy T. and Dan N. led off with a good discussion focusing on some of the merged grids as well as some discussion on polygon orientation.  The participants provided several good suggestions for products and product improvement.

We followed up with a discussion on today’s activities.  SPC has outlined a focused area in E KS, and we will plan out operations there.  We were hoping to get a good look at the GOES-R products, but there is considerable cirrus limiting the usability of that product in that area.  We have cheated out floater domain to provide some overlap to the W where the cirrus are less, and as I type, the UWCI product is lighting up over the TX PH. Also, a TOR watch has been issued for E KS.

Frank and Pat are running through an archive case for GOES-R / pGLM / LMA, while Dan, Dan and Andy are taking a look at the realtime GOES-R products.

We may take a 30 minute dinner break -or- start into MRMS/GOES-R ops (and do dinner in shifts) immediately after the archive case since we are expecting early initiation.

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

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