Friday, May 11, 2012

"Tales from the Testbed" Webinar

Today marks our first ever "Tales from the Testbed" weekly webinar.  This webinar is available to outside participants and is lead by the forecasters visiting this week.  Each forecaster was asked to put together a 5-minute presentation on something that they took away from their time in the HWT throughout the week.

A couple comments from the forecasters during the webinar...

"Based on the environment and the ongoing supercell activity, I issued the warning as soon as I saw the CTC... Without the CTC product, I may have issued the warning a scan or two later... which lead to a greater warning issuance lead time."

"Synthetic WRF imagery can enhance forecasts by providing model data in a familiar satellite format which makes model analysis, model comparison to obs and model forecast projections easier to visualize and understand."

One of the forecasters even mentioned that some of the GOES-R Proving Ground products are currently available for demonstration to the broader community via website or LDM in real-time.
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  1. Dan L.May 11, 2012 at 2:29 PM

    Regarding the synthetic 10.35-12.3 product: it's most useful in clear skies, and the severe weather in Texas this week was often relatively cloudy in the pre-storm atmosphere. It's good to not only look for the red "hotspots", but more importantly the regions that are locally increasing in time faster than the surrounding areas; this signals a pooling of water vapor (almost always at low levels), which very often precedes convective cloud development. Hopefully there will be more clear sky situations next week.

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