We have switched Pat from CYS to FTG and added Andy to that team as well. Frank is finishing out a warning with CYS and will jump on beard with Pat and Andy shortly. Dan and Dan reamin waiting for storms to enter GLD, which should do so soon.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
We started off with “Team Dan” in the BOU CWA, but switched them to the GLD CWA since it appeared more likely for CI with the satellite product. “Team Frank & Pat” have remained in CYS and have issued a few warnings by now.
As I type, there is a tornado watch that covers FTG and GLD.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
Today we again started our debrief with looking at the previous day’s CI products. In this case, we reviewed areas that were outside of where we operated since yesterday’s domain was dominated by thick cirrus/ice.
We then switched to a discussion of the pGLM products. A comment was made that suggested that the pGLM added some advance dense CG areas and potentially helping to more early identify (or at least add confidence to) new and healthy updrafts.
We wrapped up the discussion with quickly reviewing some MRMS data. We focused on the Rotationtracks product as a potential aid in areas where swatchs of strong winds may be occurring or have occurred.
As for today’s activities, since there appears to be no chance for severe weather in any of the LMA domains, we will focus on the SPC MDT Risk in NE CO/SE WY/W NE. The cirrus appears to be cooperating and today will hopefully be a good day to examine the GOES-R products.
We are anticipating a longer shift possible and we are starting with Andy working on the archive case while Dan D / Dan N are monitoring convective initiation in the BOU CWA. Frank and Pat are doing likewise in the CYS CWA. We have localized LBF and GLD CWAs in anticipation for later this evening if needed.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
Today we touched on all three sensor groups: GOES-R, pGLM, and MRMS. For the second day in a row, we were dogged by cirrus that significantly limited our use of the GOES-R data, though we did have a few occasions where we could see an Overshooting Top.
We started off with Nashville’s CWA in an attempt to observe total lightning, as well as Huntsville’s CWA. As the storms left Nashville, we switched to Birmingham during the dinner break.
There were a number of good questions from the forecasters to Geoff, which I’ll defer to his blog entries [enter blog link once we get it].
Technical Issues of the Day :
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
As we keep situationaly aware of what what VORTEX2 is doing, we will be wrapping up operations in the next five minutes and ask the forecasters to take three post-event surveys (GOESR/pGLM/MRMS)
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
Pat, Dan D and Andy have switched from OHX to BMX since storms are leaving/affecting those areas, respectively.
Frank and Dan N are currently remaining with HUN, but we’re prepared to switch over to FFC if the weather dictates. We will resume ops shortly after a pizza break.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
Hooray – live pGLM (LMA) data!!
Frank has done an interesting combination of pGLM data with IR satellite.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
We are about to transition from archive mode to warning ops. Dan D and Dan N are finishing their archive work with a discussion with Geoff while Andy and Pat start looking at the Nashville (OHX) CWA making use of the pGLM data. Frank is focusing on the MEG CWA, and is going to attempt to issue warnings using no single radar data. We wish him well!
We will set Dan and Dan up with the HUN CWA where they can also make use of the live pGLM data.
It should be noted that we asked Lak to come down for a brief discussion about the lightning density products with Pat, Frank and Andy. He helped to explain the product and its intended use.
We will consider a dinner break alternative shortly.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
We had a good discussion regarding last night’s events. We started off with reviewing the GOES-R verification from CIMSS, actually for operations on the 7th and then the 8th. We then moved to the MRMS review which prompted a good discussion on the use of divergence fields – particularly storm top divergence. Chris showed a satellite div/vort field that is being jointly developed by CIMSS and NSSL via Bob Rabin.
As for today’s operations: We had hoped that we could perform realtime pGLM analyses using the NAL domain. Early convection had suppressed that hope (excuse the pun) momentarily, but as the day continues, new/re development appears to be likely in the OHX/HUN areas which is advantageous to pGLM ops.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)
Well, though there was plenty of convection in the area we targeted today, there was not a great deal of severe out of the storms. In fact, SPC canceled their TOR watch. We are ending our ops at 0115z (9 June) and will fill out surveys and spend some time discussing today’s event.
Surveys took a little longer than I expected (especially since we asked the forecasters to fill out both the MRMS & GOESR surveys) so we ended once the surveys were completed.
Technical Issues of the Day:
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 7-11 June 2010)