Welcome to HWT Week 3

Welcome to week 3 of the HWT. The forecasters are busy trying to get spun up on using all the demonstration products in a short amount of time since storms have exploded over OK earlier this afternoon. Once this takes place, the blog will explode as well. :-)

Forecasters are here from Wakefield, VA, Fort Worth, TX, Huntsville, AL, Upton, NY, and the Norman, OK forecasters will join us tomorrow hopefully. Most of the Norman folks were out completing storm surveys this morning from yesterday's tornadoes...which very may well occur again tomorrow. GOES-R support this week at HWT includes myself (Chad), Jim Gurka, and Lori Schultz.

There have been problems with data ingest earlier...but now things are slowly coming back online.

Since I started this post...a devastating tornado tracked 8 miles north of the National Weather Center. Its a chilling reminder that one of the GOES-R goals is to assist in increasing lead time for tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings.