Thursday – Morning Case

I noticed when putting out my initial tornado warning, that TORP was highlighting a circulation slightly southwest of the more apparent circulation. Not sure if this is due to some setting I had toggled on, but I was a bit shocked to see that TORP did not highlight an area of very strong rotation.

Throughout this case, I did notice that divshear did a phenomenal job at detecting and highlighting circulations off shore. There were several times that I was made aware of a circulation from both the Az and Div Shear products before velocity.

There was one instance where Az and Div Shear swayed my warning decision. The above image shows that in reflectivity, a beam blockage kept imagery relatively weak. However, the Az and Div shear products are highlighting an area offshore. Because I saw this, I was inclined to investigate my SRM product, which showed strong rotation. I found this to be a very useful instance of the tools working to influence decision making.

 

-Fujitareno

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