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Great forecast hodograph

Bosart, Lance F <bosart@atmos.albany.edu> Tue 26 April 2011 2:05 PM
To: ruppert@atmos.colostate.edu

Hi James,

Check out the attached 12 h NAM forecast sounding and hodograph for ~32.5 N and 96.0 W (just ESE of DFW) for 0000 UTC 27 Apr 2011. I surfed twisterdata.com and generated the plots when I thought I was in the right location (after a lot of "shear" effort, of course). You might say that I had to go to "great lengths" to find such a good hodograph. The 0-6 km shear value is > 30 m/s. Looks to be a big time "stretch" for someone later.

Paging the CAPEd Crusader.......

To be determined soon if the Atm 401-501 kiddies are paying attention on day 3 of the class SVR/QPF forecasting exercise.

Take care.

Lance

of the SVR/QPF exercise.

Lance




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