With limited areas favoring severe convection, we’ve moved to TFX to the lee of the Montana Rockies. Despite somewhat limited radar coverage, 3D-Var has performed very well with the supercells ongoing across the CWA. The right-most panels in the image above depict Max updraft and accumulated max updraft. The greatest magnitudes are co-located with a tornadic supercell in Judith Basin county. 3D-Var analyses appear to work relatively well even with sparse radar coverage.