Gonna take a look at SC merger  noting two small SC storms WNW of KINX radar @ 2058UTC. Prob TOR with these storms ~ 25% at this time with generally weak AzShear with stronger northern storm.

2106 UTC – just before storm merger see uptick in Azshear (0-2 km) with slight increase in CPTI products (50-52 %).  DMD output not providing any useful information on these storms at this time probably.  ProbTor ~ 10%

After merger @ 2114 UTC although not much change in AzShear, CPTI probabilities do increase some to 55 to 60%. Note that only the XDMD mesocylone algorithm displays a mesocyclone icon at this time while legacy DMD products do not.

2126 UTC – ProbTor rapidly increased to 77% with marked increase in AzShear. CPTI products also near 70% (110 mph).  Now all three DMD products display icon by this time.  BUT the XDMD seemed to identify mesocyclone sooner than legacy products.  This was encouraging.

2142 UTC – looks like storm looses organization as inflow may have been disrupted. AZshear becomes elongated with CPTI values falling notably.   Encouraging to note the character of AzShear (became elongated ) was consistent with the less organized storm (velocity structure).  ProbTor falls to ~ 65%.  Note the xDMD algorithm did still correctly identify shear couplet (SRM not shown) where legacy algorithm fails.   XDMD performed much better and and had greater temporal continuity than legacy product in this example. In this more complex storm interaction example appeared XDMD was able to better identify and retain areas of shear/rotation compared to legacy.

-Quik TWIP