On Thursday, operations began at noon in the Development Lab, with storms ongoing in the Southern Plains.  After the daily debriefing and forecast discussion, we moved to the Hazardous Weather Testbed.  Around 1 p.m., the Experimental Forecast Program provided an in-depth weather briefing.  This discussion confirmed our decision to operate in the Fort Worth and San Angelo County Warning Areas.

The San Angelo desk consisted of Andrew Hatzos and Jonathan Buseman; the Fort Worth office of Hayden Frank and Marc Austin; and the Mesoscale Desk of Jon Kurtz and Nick Hampshire.  Multiple clusters of thunderstorms were already present, including supercellls.    With time, it became apparent that the storms in the Norman CWA would allow for an examination of the PGLM data.  Thus, the Fort Worth office was shifted to become the Norman office.  Not long after this, storms began to develop in the Lubbock CWA, which gave us another opportunity to examine PGLM data.  Thus, we decided to send the Mesoscale Desk to Lubbock to cover this activity.

After operations concluded, the forecasters completed the daily surveys.  Clark Payne (WDTB) arrived around 7 p.m. to help the forecasters complete the Friday webinar.

 -G. Garfield, Week 1 Coordinator