Good for situational awareness…Got caught looking at the Lake Meredith storm and new updrafts are quickly going up. to the south near AMA.
Differences in TPW and LAP in pre-storm environment over AMA
Noticed a major difference in the pre-storm environment at 17Z, just before convective initiation, between the TPW and LAPS products Total Precipitable Water Products. AllSkyLAP Total Precipitable H20 was observing ~1.25″ at 17Z whereas the Avd. Blended TPW observed ~0.7″ at 17Z. A special 17Z sounding observed 0.9″. While AllSkyLAP ‘looked’ more realistic from a mesoanalysis standpoint, the sounding was closer to the Adv. Blended TPW product. Would like to see more sounding verification between the 2 products.
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Merged AzShear utility
Very high utility here with the merged AZshear. Merged shear ramped up and after a couple of volume scans, My attention was drawn to an area that I would not have looked at by looking at SRM alone. This proved to be a developing tornadic situation over half an hour later! One caveat is that the area of circulation is not as precise as AzShear, of course.
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GOES16 vs GOES17 Optical Energy Comparison
GOES 17 has been showing greater Optical Energy than GOES 16 with storms currently across the TX/OK Panhandles.
AzShear in Situational Awareness
Here’s an example of where AzShear is VERY useful, especially if there are a lot of storms to look at. Here is a case where the AzShear is quickly ramping up and would alert me to a developing updraft well before I might catch this with SRM alone.
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AzShear Noise
AzShear can be noisy, but this can easily be recognized by viewing ref and SRM data concurrently.
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AllSky vs GOES Products
One of the limitations of GOES TPW is that it will not display data when there is a significant amount of clouds in the area. AllSky Layer Precip is a great alternative to GOES TPW for areas that are experiencing clouds. The same goes for AllSky CAPE vs GOES CAPE. With a MOD Risk of svr wx today across the TX Panhandle, having the AllSky Data available greatly benefits forecasters today. 
AzShear helpful in cyclonic shear situation
AzShear is quite useful here as the SRM data indicate cyclonic shear, but AzShear would give me much more confidence in issuing a TOR warning.
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NDAM in my DMA
DMA is a television market area and my home market is next to my assigned CWA for the day. A storm on the fringes of the DMA, approaching the CWA is in a known radar hole…lowest tilt of KPUX radar (Even DDC) doesn’t provide good low-level analysis of storms that far from the dish, but NDAM showing similar detection to existing products at 2308Z…
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GOES GLM products offset
Always important to keep in mind that the locations on all GOES Products are offset based on the tilt of both GOES satellites relative to the CONUS. Good Example of the offset of GLM with ENTLN lightning data displacement shown here.
Would something like this be problematic when calculated into the ProbSevere model?
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