Monday, April 30, 2018

Convective Initiation Spikes

As convection begins developing in the Lubbock WFO vicinity, monitoring of CI reveals mostly fields of CI 0-20% and Severe CI 0-1%.  Noticed some random spikes from such low levels up to 89/69% and then back to those lower levels on the next update.  The most extreme example I saw was at 2057Z:



CI with radar below.  Example above is seen at the southern boundary of Lubbock WFO, bordering MAF and SJT (just below the exact center of the image).



Animation below shows other smaller magnitude spikes in the same general area:



-Forrest

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