Very impressed with the Octane CTC product. This loop is probably a bit too fast. But It captured and area of rapid cooling east of Perry Park

At that time radar was not picking up on much at all.

20 minutes later the cell really took off with a deep core of over 60dbz reaching above -20C (panel in the top right)

While the storm was pretty vertically stacked there low ZDR and lack of melting near the surface likely lead to hail production. The fact that the CTC ID’d the area before any signal on the radar is very impressive.

The other thing that caught my eye today was the WVT Ratio. After playing around with the color map ranges I was able to tease out the moisture feed streaming into the Front Range. Overlaying this with observations matches the overall surface streamlines well. Would be very interested to see this in a dry line set up.

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