Where to start?

After an eventful afternoon and evening in Norman (here on the south side of town we are fine and continued operations as a tornadic supercell hit northern Norman) it is difficult to pick a storm and blog about it since from Nebraska south to Texas there have numerous severe storms with many severe reports.  The busy weather continues at 730pm CDT as seen in Figure 1.

Figure 1. NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere, Composite Radar Reflectivity and GOES visible imagery valid at 0024 UTC 07 May 2015.

In general the NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere model has proved to be quite useful with forecasters in all CWAs today.  One of the forecasters working the OUN WFO today echoed something we heard in the 2014 HWT.  The forecaster had many storms to monitor and issue warnings for, including the tornadic storm approaching Norman.  The forecaster commented one utility of things like NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere and the lightning jumps/total lightning flash density can be used to draw attention to storms that need further interrogating and possible warnings, which can sometimes be easy to miss when one is focused on a few tornadic supercells.

-Sieglaff