Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Super Rapid Scan Used To Issue Warning In Radar-Sparse Area

A line of storms moved through northern Missouri, which has very bad radar coverage. Because of the poor coverage, radar signatures (and to an extent ProbSevere) will often times miss severe weather in this area. This is perhaps an area where super rapid scan data could be of use. In the loop shown below, you can actually see some explosive growth in the storms in this area. This growth was enough to give me confidence to issue a warning in this area, despite poor radar sigantures and ProbSevere around 60%.


---UPDATE---
This storm ended having 60mph wind reports and 1 1" hail report.

-Toki Wartooth

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