Found a questionable TORP object while skimming through a case this afternoon. A few broken lines of convection are approaching the KAKQ radar on an early February morning. I had yet to see many TORP objects as the case is a bit of a slow start, but suddenly noticed this pop up centering on the west side of an oncoming line.

I found this strange, as I not would expect AzShear values to hug that close to the west side of a line. So I went to investigate with reflectivity and velocity data and didn’t find anything I was impressed with.

What I did see, is that the TORP object is centered about a section of I-85 in a section of fairly low reflectivity. In my home office, we’ve seen cars and boats via radar and this could be a similar event, but with a convective line in the way there’s no real way to be sure.

-Wx Warlock