JAN: Cone of Silence Rears its Ugly Head

While monitoring the severe Thunderstorms moving through the Jackson, MS CWA the echoes suddenly disappeared.

It appears that this occurred because the floating domain (Alabama) did not include the Slidell 88D, which would have been used to fill in that empty space. Snelson/Ty

Update (0053 UTC): Got the 3DVAR data back into AWIPS2. Now we can show the before and after effect of the lack of KGWX data on the 3DVAR wind. Without KGWX, the 3DVAR winds were 10 m/s from the SW at 0015 UTC.

With the addition of KGWX, the winds 25-32 m/s from the north at 0020 UTC.

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