Observations Of Products

ProbSevere-
The color table is hard to follow...probability for hail went from 71% to 61%.  It wasn't obvious that it went down just by glancing.  I looked at the color table at the top and rolled the mouse over it to see what happened.  

CI-
The colors jumped to yellow quickly, but would go away with the next scan.  Not sure what caused the spike.  A lot of noise and clutter with the lower values included. 

Mid-level clouds are picked up on the Water Vapor AGB.  We had to reference our "cheat sheet" to figure out that's what we were seeing.  It looked odd and jumped right off the imagery in the dry area.  Compared to the CI it had jumped to increased chance for convection to occur there.

*Side note on the Water Vapor...nice imagery! Easy to use to see where the dryline was located as there were barely any METAR stations around that area. The water vapor was obvious with the color table.  I could immediately tell where the dry air was located compared to the moisture.  The storms were trying to develop in the drier air mass...

 And just discovered the severe CI product.  This is a nice way to hone in on where ingredients come together for severe storm development.  The areas matches where there are mid-level clouds rapidly developing.  This area also  had a rapid increase in CAPE.




-Penny Gardens