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OT product showed a good updraft. Also saw signal for a strong updraft in the Dawson county part of the line with 60+ knots inbound winds at the storm top.
ProbSevere should not be useful, given this cell had been around for awhile and was more of a line, but still high. Time series showed lightning dropping though further inspection showed lots of cell mergers and breaks occurring.Cell was tall still in the upper tilts, higher dbZ.
Using 8km 5min total lightning grid and plot along with cell flash rate tracking, polygons, dangerous thunderstorm alerts to watch lightning trends. Kept the time series visible on the right. Cell trended toward zero so letting the warning expire. We did have a few instances where cells merged so lightning went to zero in the initial cell.
Keeping an eye on the one-minute GOES super rapid scan with the CI product. You can clearly see the boundary and the lake breeze boundary on the satellite loop. You can see a weak shortwave denoted by the blue area on the CI product…we are thinking that once this intersects with the other boundaries we will get enough lift to break the weak cap and initiate convection.