Rotation tracks vs base data

We had two rotating thunderstorms. One rotating storm across the southeast portion of our CWA (Image 1) and a second storm near our northern CWA border (Image 2).

Storm number 1 as seen in image 1 had a nice long rotating track that had modest rotation at times. This was a good distance from the radar so even at the lowest slice was rather elevated. Felt the rotation was weak enough and elevated enough to just keep it a svr thunderstorm warning. Reflectivity also did not look overly impressive. We did get several severe hail reports.

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Storm number 2 as seen below also had a persistent rotating updraft, but rotation was not as strong as in storm number 1 above. This storm did produce golf ball size hail, but the rotation was not significant enough to warrant a tornado warning. Thus we went with severe thunderstorm warnings. Weselyrotation2046zNorthWesely

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