{"id":2115,"date":"2011-05-09T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2011-05-09T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T14:00:59","slug":"week-1-underway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2011\/05\/09\/week-1-underway-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the typical culmination of late night hours and technology wrestling matches, the 2011 edition of the Experimental Warning Program’s spring experiment, or EWP2011, gets underway today.\u00a0 We want to welcome our first set of visiting forecasters:\u00a0 Jerilyn Billings<\/strong> (WFO Wichita, KS), Scott Blair <\/strong>(WFO Topeka, KS), Brian Curran <\/strong>(WFO Midland, TX), Andy Taylor<\/strong> (WFO Norman, OK), and Brandon Vincent <\/strong>(WFO, Raleigh, NC).<\/p>\n

We are trying a few new things this year:<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0 Monday is our dedicated training and orientation day.\u00a0 In the past, we’ve crammed in both training, orientation, and real-time operations on the first days of each operational week, and have felt rushed and in some cases, the forecasters felt unprepared.\u00a0 So we’ve expanded our time dedicated toward our training sessions, and turned the last few hours of the shift into a hands-on get acquainted with the AWIPS software and experimental products session.\u00a0 In addition, we’ve moved our Monday shift back 3 hours (10a-6p) so that our visitors can get started right away on their first day.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are our only real-time operational shifts.\u00a0 The entire days will be devoted to real-time operations, instead of wrapping up unfinished training from Monday.<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0 Our real-time days now feature two overlapping shifts.\u00a0 In an effort to a) emulate the forecast – nowcast – warning decision processes in a WFO, and b) start bridging the gap between the EWP and the Experimental Forecast Program (EFP) of the HWT, we’ve added an early shift.\u00a0 We are splitting our visiting forecasters into two groups, and each group will have opportunities to work both shifts.\u00a0 The early shift runs from 9a-5p and the late shift is our usual 1p-9p.\u00a0 The early shift will issue a morning Area Forecast Discussion (AFD).\u00a0 Between 1p-5p, both shifts will overlap and collaborate on an update to the AFD, as well as being the process of monitoring convective initiation (CI), issuing nowcasts, and eventually warnings, all weather dependent on the forecast\/warning area chosen for the day.<\/p>\n

4)\u00a0 The EWP and EFP will conduct a joint map discussion at 1pm on the real-time operations days.\u00a0 The EWP will inform the EFP about the previous day’s events, and the EFP and our morning EWP shift will help inform the EWP on the likely areas of warning operations for the afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n

Watch here for daily outlooks, live blogging during operations, daily summaries, and an end-of-week summary for the next 5 weeks.\u00a0 Note that we take a holiday the entire week of Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

Greg Stumpf, EWP2011 Operations Coordinator<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the typical culmination of late night hours and technology wrestling matches, the 2011 edition of the Experimental Warning Program’s spring experiment, or EWP2011, gets underway today.\u00a0 We want to… <\/p>\n

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