Convective Initiation product (CI) correctly showed increasing values just south of the Denver Boulder area from 1600 to 1800 UTC 11 June 2015.  Values increase from 36 to near 60% in the general vicinity of the storms that developed  in the Pueblo, CO area.  This gave about 30 minutes of lead time to the first lightning strikes around 1715Z.  It would be nice to get CI output at 1-5 minute temporal resolution to match RSO/SRSO.  We had outflow boundaries evident in the SRSO imagery but had to wait 15 minutes for CI updates.  Below are a series of images as the storms were developing showing the CI, the MRMS Composite Reflectivity, Visible satellite, PGLM 6min summary, 0-200km Lighting Jump, 15minute ENI 8km interpolated lighting grid and cloud to ground strikes.  The lightning jump showed up to 2 sigma jumps at 1729 UTC.  MrSnow/Shasta.

– CI is/was available with RSO! – BL