GOES-derived Products Demonstrated at NWS Sullivan
On 05 July 2011, Robert Aune and Jordan Gerth (CIMSS) spent the day at the National Weather Service Office, Sullivan, WI (MKX) as part of the GOES-R Local Area Testbed being conducted by CIMSS. While there, they trained forecasters on the use of GOES fog detection products and GOES Sounder near-casting products.
On this day the near-casting products were found useful for estimating locations where convective storms were most likely to form in Central Wisconsin. The strongest storms tended to form along horizontal gradients of instability that were near-casted 3 to 5 hours in advance by the GOES Sounder Near-casting model.
