During today's EWP forecaster daily briefing, we discussed the previous day's activities over DC and then over eastern CO later on in the evening around 2345 UTC. When asked about how the CI products performed during the early event, the forecasters offered the following comments...
"It was complex and challenging to use in this sort of widespread event. We primarily used the UAH CI product yesterday. It was generally pretty noisy in this kind of pattern, but I did see some clusters and bands with some mixed success. In some cases it popped up where there was clearly some convection ongoing, but there where definitely cases where it did show some good signals. I would like to see it more in some cases like this that are difficult."
"I was watching it today over the same area and it gave 45 minutes to 1 hour lead time over lightning."
For today we have decided to operate over western OK to capture some clean slate CI as well as give us a chance to examine some of the other experimental products, such as the PGLM, which are limited to specific domains... one of which being over Oklahoma.
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