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There are several plays today, from the DCLMA to the Denver area, however we are catchinbg up with archive cases today. We’re starting off with all the forecastsers going through the 10 Feb 2009 LMA case. We will then switch over to PAR and CASA archive cases.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
Teams are wrapping up their respective archive cases. Dan N. and Steve worked the 10 February 2009 CASA case and Gail and Bill worked the 30 April 2009 PAR case.
We will wrap up the day with surveys and discussions.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
We are two hours into our IOP. There has been an interesting QLCS case for the PAR.
We’ve also witnessed some intersting lightning features in the VILMA.
CASA had some good strong wind cases.
We plan on continuing on for the next hour, then take a dinner break. After that, we’ll see if there is any significant redevelopment we’ll start another realtime IOP. Otherwise, we’ll run archive cases this evening.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
We did a very quick debrief of last night’s events. We then quickly got started with the ongoing convection entering SW OK.
We are trying a first: we have three teams of two running LMA (Steve/Dan M.), CASA (Gail/Bill), and PAR (Daniel N./Chris S.).
Ops started approximately 1930z.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
Wrapping up ops for the night. Steve and Bill switched from DDC to TSA. Steve experienced considerable trouble with his AWIPS workstation, and it appears to be a problem overlaying the environmental data on the the elevation scan.
Dan and Gail stayed with ICT.
We missed the possible tornado east of DDC. Comments will follow in tomorrow’s debried.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
Alrighty…
We left the debrief to start LMA training and then right into a LMA IOP over the DC LMA. We were paid a visit by OS&T chief Don Berchoff
We then did some CASA training until things startewd initiating in DDC, ICT and OUN CWAs. The southern most storms (OUN CWA) struggled against the cap so we opted against a PAR IOP and stuck with a MRMS IOP for DDC and ICT.
We had problems with the AWIPS server (load issues) but eventually got going. Unfortunately, it was too late to capture the tornado E of the KDDC radar that V2 was on.
As of 0035z (10 June), we are relocalizing from DDC to TSA as storms enter Osage Co. OK.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
Welcome to the MDT risk. Today we are looking at two plays/IOPs today. We’ll start off the day with LMA training and slide right into an LMA IOP over the DC domain. We’ll break and re-evaluate with the initial idea of operating a MRMS IOP over the MDT risk along S KS. However, we will switch to a CASA/PAR realtime IOP *if* significant storms develop in/near the CASA domain.
Looks like things are heating up…
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
Greg is stepping through the replay of tonight’s event comparing the HWT warnings with the NWS warnings.
First impressions with MRMS from the forecasters:
Bill – took a while to get used to MRMS data
All- liked the trending info
Daniel N. – interested in combining base data with MRMS data in a 4-panel. Also found track info helpful in polygon issuance
Steve – MRMS data helpful particularly when storms went near/over radar. Expressed concern about the difference between MRMS “X above Y” compared to single radar data and model soundings. Found Rotationtracks quite usedul.
Discussion – usefulness of “X above Y” products when dual-pol comes along. Will these become obsolete? All agreed that this would be very useful in reanalysis
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
Wrapping up the IOP. Teams are finalizing last warnings and we’re about to begin the discussion.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
Just switched Daniel/Dan from GRR to IWX for the last 30 minutes or so. They are now “WDSSIIC”.
Kevin Manross (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 8-12 June 2009)
