Monday, May 7, 2012

EWP underway

NWS forecasters and visiting scientists participating in the Monday afternoon overview briefing.

The Experimental Warning Program (EWP) portion of this year's Spring Experiment is now underway. This week we have 4 NWS forecasters visiting the HWT. During the first hour of the day from noon to 1pm the forecasters participated in a short overview briefing and then moved into the HWT to familiarize themselves with the data in AWIPS II. During this time, 2 of the forecasters who were unable to run through the Weather Event Simulator (WES) training case were able to do so. Currently the forecasters are focused over southern TX where a severe threat is currently ongoing. We may not issue any warning tonight as the forecasters are still getting comfortable working in AWIPS II.

NWS forecasters running through the 24 May 2011 WES training case prior to operations.

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