Scattered to numerous strong to severe thunderstorms develop along and ahead of a surface cold front. Many DTA’s were triggered by the intense convection from mid afternoon into the early evening. The DTA boxes and 5km lightning grid total flash density product worked well as an SA tool and quick indicator of rapidly deepening convection. In addition, the storms that developed near the MO/IA line where flow was more backed did a good job in showing the right turning storms.

-Wacha