Yesterday's event was mainly spent familiarizing the forecasters with AWIPS II, how to load the products and setting up procedures, so active operations were somewhat limited. Below are some of the feedback we gathered during today's debrief.
SATCAST / UW Cloud-top Cooling
- "We looked at it (CI and CTC) after the fact and it looked liked it picked up on the initiation really well."
- "There were only two cells that had advanced warning on the CTC, but the rest fell apart right after the signal."
- "Given yesterday's setup, it was very marginal, pulse-type storms... I was pretty impressed by the way the CI product handled it with cells going up all over... the CTC product really helped key in on what cell was most significant."
PGLM
- For some reason the West TX LMA data was not meshing well with the way the domain was set up in AWIPS II, so flash amounts were low and offset... we had to use an external WDSSII display for the Lubbock forecasters to look at.
- "For the limited amount we got to look at, I liked the PGLM a lot... it was very very handy."
Nearcast
- Cloud cover mostly obscured the areas of interest yesterday (Lubbock/Amarillo) due to ongoing convection.
- Forecasters really liked the CAPE product and look forward to seeing it throughout the week.
- "There were a few holes around where observations were made and it matched up with some of the meso data."
Overall / Training
- "It would be helpful to show the boundaries for the products that don't cover the entire area."
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