Today EWP forecasters participated in our weekly training and are now engaged in a displaced real-time Weather Event Simulator (WES) case for further hands-on training. The event occurred on May 19th 2010 over Oklahoma. The reason we chose this case was because all of the experimental products were available, including PGLM since it was over the OKLMA. The case also gives us the unique opportunity to view storms from initiation all the way through dissipation in a controlled environment, with tornadoes and other severe weather in between. Each forecaster works on their own AWIPS machine to familiarize themselves with the products, how to load them, and also how to best display them. We ask the forecasters to create their own procedures (or preloaded AWIPS displays) and we save them all for further reference. We want to see how the forecasters use the experimental data in combination with other products that are available within AWIPS. This also gives the forecasters the chance to engage the PIs (and vice-versa) with any questions that they may have regarding the products' uses. The hope for this is that by the time we begin real-time operations over the coming days, the forecasters will be ready to use the experimental products confidently.
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