Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Springfield Storms

We're currently analyzing storms developing in the Springfield Missouri WFO.  Right now I'm using various tools to monitor if these storms will become severe.
Right now I'm using a combination of radar, GLM, nucaps, and the All sky products. Currently the most helpful tools on top of what I normally use are allsky and the lightning products.
The allsky cape helped to find CAPE gradients and an increase in CAPE. The northern batch of storms were pushing into an area of increasing CAPE and in return they did intensify.



While deciding whether or not to issue a warning I also looked at AFA GLM data to see if there were new flashes developing which can be indicative of growing convection. That flashes aligned with radar and increased my confidence that storms would intensify.



That lead to me issuing a severe thunderstorm warning. The prob severe data also ramped up. So I felt confident about my warning.


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