Just got done with EWP's daily afternoon briefing and we have selected to localize over Norman for the day on both teams due to the obvious severe weather threat over the area this evening.
Some notes from the briefing...
1) Localization selection yesterday automatically selected GOES-West for the satellite imagery, which caused us to lose the RSO imagery for the entire IOP... this was noted to the coordinators and should not happen again.
2) Kris Bedka showed a 24-hour verification in the briefing (and earlier in this blog) that OTs did occur in concurrence with severe weather last night and matched the tracks of the severe reports very well.
3) Justin Sieglaff showed us the verification for the NSSL-WRF simulated satellite imagery from the beginning of today and the forecasts match with the current actual imagery from the same time... so we were able to determine that the NSSL-WRF was accurately developing cloud features within its forecasts.
4) The NSSL-WRF lightning threat forecast was shown to the forecasters for this evening and it helped us identify which storms may have stronger updrafts because of their increased lightning output, which we couldn't necessarily determine from the synthetic satellite or radar output.
Will be providing updates as the day progresses...
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