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60 mph wind gust at Lima, OH (airport)

This is the 2nd snowstorm in the US, in 2 days

This isn't really Mountain West weather, but this is my first side-by-side comparison of Radarscope vs. GRLevel3. I decided to buy Radarscope. It has several nice features. There are definitely a few things that are different, but Radarscope has the super-resolution (Level-2) reflectivity. It has super-resolution (Level-2) base velocity, but I don't see storm relative velocity. So I guess I will still have to use GRLevel3's storm-relative velocity for some purposes, which is nearly at super-resolution. They have the same features for composite reflectivity. They have pretty similar features on the dual-polarization fields. GRLevel3 has better resolution on 1-hour rainfall and VIL. Radarscope has a distance measurement feature that makes a circle, showing miles. GRLevel3 has markers for measurement, and you get nautical miles. It's kind of funny that sometimes the maps show different small towns, but that's just the difference in the built-in maps from some national database. Storm tracks are a little different for some reason. Generally, I don't like the storm tracks, so I turn those off when I use GRLevel3. I pretty much just use hail icons in GRLevel3. Nice green hail icons make you think that every storm is throwing out 1"-2" hailstones 100% of the time. That's fun! GRLevel3 is more customizeable in terms of which types of warnings to show, which types of storm information to show (hail, meso, TVS), storm reports, and ability to load specialized color schemes. Radarscope has built-in support for MPING (cell-phone app where observers report any precipitation type, or possibly severe weather). I haven't found any severe storm report button (NWS).

I am playing around with Radarscope right now for the first time. Is there a way to save the screen as a picture?

The first stronger storm is getting going near Dodge City KS down in Texas, this is a 3d look into the BWER of this large storm

We've had a max wind gust to 47mph here at Fort Collins- Loveland. We seem to be in a cool, dry, and sunny air mass, with low temperatures that could get down to 33 here.

The SPC has put out a day-3 slight risk for the Red River area. The forecast soundings have around 75 kt of 0-6km shear, if any (high-based) storms develop there. The College of Dupage GEFS page shows higher supercell indices on Wednesday 5/13 and Thursday 5/14, as well as several days beyond that. I don't know how many people usually look at the GEFS for this, but it might be interesting.

A look into the BWER of the tornado-warned storm at Pineville MO

Just a few minutes ago, I saw the first nearby lightning bolts I've seen all year, with low rumbles of thunder. Several severe storm warnings were issued for NE Colorado this evening. Edit: my place had another thunderstorm at 11:00PM (previous was at about 10:00PM) with light to moderate rain, better thunder, and at several distinctive lightning bolts!! My rain totals are 0.30" and 0.26" for the last 2 days.

These are the narrowest storms I have ever seen a 12km model produce

SPC's web page is breaking all over the place.

Radar base velocity shows up to 75 knots aloft heading for Nashville

There have been about 9 recent severe wind reports with this line of storms, nearing the Mississippi River.

Severe cell in SE Illinois near Shelbyville - radar data showed that 60dBz went up to 30,000 ft. Hail was estimated to be 3", but no hail of that size was reported.

We have had a couple of sub-severe storms out east of me today. The last 12 days have been above 60 here, with a high of 78, yesterday, a high of 81 on 4/27 and roughly 80 degrees today. Edit: the cold front has come in. In combination with some rain showers, the cold front has increased the dew point to 48 degrees. Summertime! Edit: my place has had some rain showers and distant thunder today.

I downloaded Nexrad level-2 data to make this 3-d image of the Moore tornado, 5/20/2013

Three possible tornadoes in southeast Oklahoma

High winds of 60-70mph have been reported west of Springfield MO, and also high winds detected by radar in this area.

Here is what I found for the MRMS calculated hail swath across DFW (one-hour only). Color bar is in millimeters, so 25mm = 1"

Is that from the MRMS web site?

I am pleased to announce that we will have a new thread for the summer. Today, it was 80 degrees here. The snow from several days ago is long gone. We probably will have above normal temperatures for several days. I hope we will have a summer with normal to above-normal rainfall.

Eastern Iowa could get several severe storms, with a chance for tornadoes. The SBCAPE may only reach 1000-1800 J/kg, which is generally kind of low, considering the SHARPpy-based soundings seem to have high CAPE numbers a lot of times.

Central to northeast Texas may have a loaded-gun type sounding, with 72 dew points, and some 850mb winds of 30-35 kt in some areas. This could be a situation for isolated or scattered severe storms that are slow-moving with just enough 0-6 km shear for mesocylones. Otherwise, I expect widespread storms from Missouri southward to Texarkana and possibly Oklahoma City. These storms may be facing a situation that the better 500 mb wind/ 0-6 km shear is trying to catch up to the storms, and/or catch up to the higher 0-3km SRH.

This was perhaps the best rotational velocity near Charlotte 10:30PM EDT (02:30z)

I guess this is the TDS for the confirmed tornado near Rome, TN. it's possible the tornado went over I-40