Thunderstorms have fired along the front range. We have groups sectorized to cover 2 CWAs. Veronica and Bill are WFO Pueblo. Pete and guest LMA expert turned warning forecaster Geoff are WFO CYS. VORTEX 2 is positioning to intersect the WY storms. Good luck to all!
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)
Bill/Jenni team observe MESH gone up dramatically on storm of interest. Shouldn’t last long but will go with a short duration SVR.
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)
Bill/Jenni close to warning thresholds associating mesh with hail reports on NW storm with 60+ dBZ. Using FSI to get a cross section and look at CAPPI.
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)
Group splits into 2 groups of 2. Were going to have one group be Medford and the other Eureka, however in the time it is taking to compose this, Eureka looks pretty poor. So both will be Medford. We’ll ride this for as long as we can with such a rare opportunity to see svr in this area.
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)
Pete worked entire IOP on storms over Northern Kansas/Southern Nebraska. This was mainly a hail event with lots of quarters and a few golfballs in storms which were propagating swwd. Mesh and traditional data sets were consistant. Some of the trend products were useful.
Bill and Veronica worked marginal storms in CASA network. Some hail but not much wind. Followed this with the CASA Archive wind event. This group didn’t have D2D and was somewhat hampered with WDSSII display efforts. Looking forward to live events tomorrow, hopefully for all 3 OK network sensors (CASA, PAR, LMA).
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Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 1-5 June 2009)
Winding down. CASA group done with wind event. Storms continue nrn Ks to build/develop westward producing hail up to quarters and wind. Some of the best rotation signatures of the night but also sampling higher up.
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)
Storms continue to fire along western end of the line in Nrn Ks (Phillips county). Mesh values some of the best so far tonight. Shave making calls on the storm.
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)
CASA team has warned their marginal storms into the ground. Storms are in the process of dying as them move into central ok. With Don here, we’ve decided to let them do a short CASA archive case to round out the remaining hour or so of the operations night. Pete still working a couple storms storms backbuilding across Hastings area. Vortex has gone home for the night which gave us hope that storms would intensify.
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)
CASA team cancelled warning. Other storms continuing to develop along northern edge and occasionally pulse up. Travis helping Jeff bring up some LMA data since storms are in the network.
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)
Storms in CASA network appeared to be letting up but last couple scans have shown increase as they move towards metro. This prompted another warning from CASA team. Storms in NE continue to go. Were doing some interrogation for shear/rotation as well but hail liklihood is high so additional warnings were issued.
Liz Quoetone and Paul Schlatter (EWP Weekly Coordinators, 1-5 June 2009)