UW-CTC Working as Expected in MN/IA

The UW-CTC product has been capturing the initial and ongoing convective development taking place first within the MPX CWA domain, and later further south in north central to central IA.  The beauty of these events is that this showcases how the UW-CTC product still does pretty well, even though the area has a lot of apparent cloud contamination within the scenes.  The below images are shown in chronological order with the original strong convection beginning in the MSPL area at 1515 UTC (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1

Later on at 1725 UTC, the UW-CTC captured good development in the MSPL area that later is an ongoing robust thunderstorm (Fig. 2).

Fig. 2

Some further strong convective development along the frontal boundary was noted in northern and central IA.  Figs. 3 (1932 UTC) and 4 (1955 UTC) capture this development unzipping further south along the boundary and still within areas of significant amounts of cloud debris.

Fig. 3

Fig. 4