Never meant to attack and I don't think we are actually arguing different points. My feeling all along with this storm was needing to max precip from 5-10 am. Most models, including the Nams gave decent precip in that time frame. The warm nose, even here, was washing out under heavy returns but couldn't sustain them. The warm nose was real but it was really there on all models. Most soundings i looked at were right on the edge. The problem was the max in that morning timeframe went north and by the time the secondary max moved through, we were toast anyway.
Maybe I am taking your points the wrong way and I apologize. Just trying to discuss a "post mortem" so to speak.