CTC Captures Severe Convection in S. New Mexico

The UW-CTC product captured some severe convection in southern New Mexico, Lincoln County, and exhibited strong cooling rates well before the first report of severe hail.  Below is the screen capture from AWIPS-2 at 1745 UTC when the strongest CTC signal was evident valued at -25K/15min.

Following at 1820 UTC, the first report of severe hail at 1" was received by NWS.  Below is the screen capture of SPCs storm report page.

According to the reported time, UW-CTC provided a lead time of 45 minutes over this first hail report.