Bad Velocity Data Trips Alogrithms

Just after 20z on the eastern fringe of the LUB CWA, the KFDR radar indicated an area of very high inbound velocity. However, this data is in question as the elevated velocity occurred in an area of low Z and high SW, and likely not representative of the actual storm. This may have been caused by a side lobe. This had cascading affects with algorithms being tested which could not filter out the bad data. Low level az shear spiked to over 0.01 in a group of stationary pixels. This caused algorithms that ingest the az shear product to spike including ProbTor which increased to over 90%, as well as CPTI which showed lower end probabilities of a violent tornado in progress.

Dave Grohl