GLM practical use with storms and outflow boundaries

Here's a very practical use for the GLM and not just in terms of forecasting or determining severe weather potential in thunderstorms.  During summertime multicell mode with many outflow boundaries from collapsing storms... the GLM was able to pinpoint rapidly developing updrafts behind the outflow boundary.

In the radar loop above... additional storms developed behind the outflow boundary, but it took a few radar scans for them to show up.  This could be used with converging boundaries too along with GOES-16 data... like sea breeze induced convection.  While the storms were not severe at the time, there was a dramatic lightning jump with 2 individual cells.

The interpolated 5 min GLM events with 1 min updates on a 9km grid along with 5 min ENTLN overlay did show the increase in lightning in the cells, but honestly I prefer the non-interpolated data IF I'm zoomed into the CWA, since it does pick up the higher GLM event totals.  Warning were also issued from the dramatic lightning jumps.

-Dan S.