Good overview of the products – even with little sensible weather.

First thought – will try to “enhance” a few color curves to make interrogation easier. I have spent “lots” of hours in the WFO setting enhancing color tables – and I believe these will help.  One easy change is to reduce the “noise” of the CI product – e.g. remove values below 40%.  This allows you to focus only the storms of interest.

Thought #2 is to combine/overlay the observed fields (e.g. ThetaE_NearCast) with relevant forcing.  For instance, in the image below I used the ThetaE difference with GFS40 850mb moisture convergence.  In essence, combine the observed environment with model forcing parameters.

Mike Fowle