While this forecaster has a habit of making overly busy procedures, this image would typically not be a 4-panel. The display merely represents color options and what would seemingly be most functional in a warning environment. The top right image is favored by this forecaster, as the logarythmic color scale narrows the focus down to the really active storms the best. However, this color scale may also be improved by incorporating the concept of the two lower images that highlight certain values that can be correlated with levels of severity and or rainfall rates. This would especially be useful in the heavy rain environments, and alternative shaded overlay might be the Digital Precipitation Rate product that is useful for decision support in extreme rainfall events.
The DSS applications of the lightning products themselves may be difficult initially use operationally (eg. for the threat of "out-of-the-blue" or anvil lightning threats), but a season-long ingest of the data could eventually be useful in a probabilistic threat that could be used as a confidence factor that EMs and outdoor event managers can use as a level of tolerance for safety.
Forecaster: Manbearpig
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