Much of the focus for day one was hands-on training for each of the evaluation products. After some initial familiarization with AWIPS-II, the various PI’s worked with forecasters on how to interpret the products, and what to look for during the week. Forecasters also became familiar with saving images, and posting to the blog. By the end of the day, participants had already made several informative blog posts.

Today we operated in the Davenport and St. Louis CWA’s. Since many of the products being demonstrated have their greatest benefit in the pre-storm environment, forecasters were unable to experience their full potential given the ongoing convection at the beginning of operations. The Prob Severe and Overshooting Top Detection products seemed to have the most utility in this situation. Additionally, forecasters appreciated the availability of the GOES-14 1-minute imagery.

Tomorrow, we will start activities at 12:30 in the Dev Lab for the daily debrief before moving to the HWT for the EFP briefing. Operations will likely take place somewhere in the Ohio Valley region.

– Bill Line, GOES-R SPC/HWT Satellite Liaison and Week 2 EWP Coordinator