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
Summary – 2 June 2008
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)
Live Blog – 2 June 2008 (8:20pm)
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)
Live Blog – 2 June 2008 (8:02pm)
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)
Live Blog – 2 June 2008 (7:57pm)
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)
Live Blog – 2 June 2008 (7:19pm)
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)
Live Blog – 2 June 2008 (7:06pm)
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)
Live Blog – 2 June 2008 (6:53pm)
Exercise has begun. George is doing AWIPS storm interrogation. Jon is at the PW controls with input from Chris. We’ll be swapping from time to time.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
Live Blog – 2 June 2008 (6:27pm)
Will run one team of 3 for PW in western S.Dakota/Nebraska where storms have fired in Svr Tstm Watch.
Liz Quoetone (EWP Weekly Coordinator, 2-6 June)
Outlook – 2 June 2008
All undergoing training/familiarization today with CASA/WDSSII/Prob Warn. Will do PAR overview tomorrow.
Looks like nothing in the testbed tonight. Perhaps nothing until Thursday. Will have a PW IOP tonight over whatever area looks best, either new stuff going up along the Rockies or long-lived MCS/bow moving thru southeast MO.
LizQ