After a long afternoon/evening of analyzing convection over the northern half of DVN’s CWA, I took a few minutes to take a look back at the NearCast theta-e and PW difference products. Starting with the PW difference product, it was good to see the increased moisture advecting into the region and it lined up exactly with where storms initiated and persisted throughout the day. It did take some interpolating since there were some blacked out spots, similar to the theta-e difference product, but both are still helpful tools to see local storm environment as well as what’s coming upstream. The same trend could be seen in the theta-e product and combining these two, it raises my confidence level in being able to use these products when performing a mesoscale analysis.

~Linda