AzShear RFGF – Occluded Supercell

One unique advantage of the AzShear product I noticed (outside the initial 1-D vorticity analysis) was it’s ability to distinguish gust front boundaries very easily. In this example, you can easily distinguish the FFGF, the tornadic circulation, and the RFGF very quickly and can identify the supercell to be occluded with the RFGF pushing out away from the storm and is cutting off the low-level inflow into the storm. Sure enough, shortly after the supercellular circulation occludes, the tornadic circulation weakens and soon dissipates. In operations, this could be information easily identified by the forecaster noting the tornado may dissipate shortly.

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