On the Usefulness of the GOES-R Convective 4-Panel Procedure

A 4-Panel created by Bill incorporating many of the GOES-R Products
A 4-Panel created by Bill incorporating many of the GOES-R Products

Just a quick post to discuss the utility of this convective 4-panel.  Operationally speaking, I can forsee this procedure being quite useful as it incorporates many analysis tools.  The NearCast tool (top left) can be looked at and compared to ongoing cloud cover/convection to see if storms are forming along/near any boundaries.  In this case, you can see that convection is concentrated in the most unstable airmass, located across Arkansas northwest into eastern Oklahoma.  It is also nice to have the CI tool (top right) with this procedure to diagnose if any of these boundaries have convective potential in the near-term.  I added radar to the bottom-right panel in order to see convective trends and whether or not CI is actually occuring in some of the areas highlighted by the CI tool.  In this case, the overshooting top tool did not have any detections, but would also be of use with more robust convective elements.  Overall, I think this procedure will be of operational use, especially once GOES-R is actually launched and these products increase in overall utility.

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