PW software giving challenges to George with regard to syncing products and threat areas. George believes operator error. Both groups keeping up with hail and wind threats as storms make their way into sw Kansas.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
“Shift Change”. George now at the helm with Jon and Chris at the controls with Milovan. Rumor has it SPC on the verge of a TOR over ncentral OK. Storms have been producing giant hail and winds over 70mph. Will likely stay with these storms until end of IOP.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
Splitting into 2 groups and both working storms in OK panhandle and NW OK, SW KS. George and Jon are Team 1 and Chris and Milovan are Team 2. Shave is calling on storms which are in a SVR and producing reports of golfball hail.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
Participants are getting PAR Overview at this time. Afterward, they will split into 2 groups with 1 group going thru a PAR archive and the other thru a CASA archive. Around 5:30pm we will start IOP with Prob Warn, and may transistion group with PAR exposure to Live PAR if anything develops within network over northern Oklahoma. LizQ
All three forecasters spent time doing Prob Warn on storms moving out of the Northern Rockies. Primarily used Rapid City radar. In general, group felt comfortable with software and outlined threat areas for hail, some wind, and a tornado at the end. Tomorrow looks like a similar IOP in the evening somewhere with Archive cases during the afternoon.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
George goes with a very low prob TOR threat area, mainly to see how all these things look together. Now have hail, wind and tor threats overlapping.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
John Ferree has arrived as another observing scientist. Team has once again rotated clockwise. Chris is on AWIPS, George at PW and Jon as assistant. Quarter hail still being reported on the storms in question.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
Chris and George did a Warning with initial prob of 100% with no degredation for 60 minutes. They are expecting large hail for the duration of the warning.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
Participants rotate (clockwise). Jon now on AWIPS using FSI amongst other things. Chris has the PW mouse and has opted to start up fresh to get more familiar with PW tool. George is now in assistant chair.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
Shave is operating on our storms. Golfball hail in eastern most storm. This storm is undergoing some mergers (area is getting larger) and turning a little to the right so threat area is updated based on this.
Jon suggests that tracking feature translate (as in WarnGen) to better help forecasters see if they’ve located the same feature in previous frames.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)