Tech woes are slowly resolving.  The 3DVAR issues are fixed for now, although our domain is a bit too small to capture the breadth of the severe weather event.  AWIPS issues on higgins are causing problems with warning issuance.  We discovered that the Boston warning headers are ‘BOX’ and need to be manually changed to ‘BOS’.  In addition, the warning VTEC counters are not incrementing with each new warning, so we’ll need to edit these manually.

So, what is going on weatherwise?  We have a line of severe storms moving through southern New England and southeast New York, with a few stray severe cells out ahead of the line.  And we just got a report of 1.75″ hail from Wappingers Falls, NY, my home town!  The event looks like this right now (Reflectivity at -20C):

Greg Stumpf, EWP2011 Week 4 Cooridinator