Despite a messy linear structure oriented down-radial, AzShear initially proved valuable in highlighting a weak circulation and TORP even highlighted it with ~30% probability. I was pleasantly surprised to see this after witnessing some tracking and object identification issues in quasi-linear structures during the real time event Monday afternoon.

Things went a bit downhill after that. It became apparent that TORP was over-identifying in an area that actually showed convergence in velocity data, but oriented to the radar in a way that it also lit up AzShear (which I suspect is the leading cause). Granted,

I should note that the above is with no probability threshold set. With a 30% threshold, most of these disappeared, so while it appears TORP may be over-identifying, the probabilities associated with these objects are low and fairly easy to successfully filter out.

– Mr. Peanut