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Visualizing Long-‐Range Severe Thunderstorm Environment Guidance from the CFSv2
Greg Carbin Michael TippeB
Sam Lillo
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SPC Feedback (Mar. 10, 2015)
A few hours ago there was no risk for storms in NC. Now, POOF! Here we are. You ignorant
clowns pulled this number so many times last year that I lost count. If you had any expertise, or
dignity, you would apologize for all of the meteorological stupidity.
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UDlizing IRI Data Library for access to CFSv2 data: 1) Download 00 UTC CFSv2 subset of grids over the
CONUS for 1000&500mb u/v winds, 0-‐180mb MUCAPE, 0-‐3km SRH, & model convecDve precipitaDon*
2) Compute a modified simple Supercell Composite Parameter (SCP) as follows:
SCP = MUCAPE/500 X 0-‐3km SRH/50 X EBWD-‐term
3) Count grid points in domain (out of 651) where 24-‐hour average (12z-‐12z):
SCP >= 1 …for Day 1 through Day 45.
*Ini$ally tried constraining to areas where QPF>0 but resul$ng grid counts were too low.
Using CFS guidance for severe (SCP)
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CFSR* SCP Days – February Mean
Non-‐zero gp counts and F1+ tornadoes
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CFSR* SCP Days February 2008 vs. 2010 2008 Days
2010 Days
2008 Departure
2010 Departure
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CFSR* SCP Days February 1998
1998 Departure & Tornadoes
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CFS SCP Days & VerificaDon February 2014 Forecast Days
Actual Days
Forecast Departure
Actual Departure
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CFS SCP Days & VerificaDon February 2015 Forecast Days
Actual Days
Forecast Departure
Actual Departure
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CFSR* SCP Days March 18-‐31, 79-‐13
Non-‐zero gp counts and F1+ tornadoes
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CFSR* SCP Days March 18-‐31, 1991
1991 Departure & Tornadoes
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CFS SCP Days March 18-‐31, 2015
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CFSR* SCP Days March 18-‐31, 79-‐13
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CFSv2 SCP days>5 gp counts March 2015
56 forecasts from 2/25-2/28
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Very Preliminary ObservaDons
• “SCP days” weakly correlated with tornadoes
• Simple large ens mean possible from CFS
• Past two Februarys verify as CFS over-‐forecasts
• Latest two-‐week “SCP days” forecast ~ climo!
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Climate Forecast System (CFS) Guidance 2nd version of NCEP Climate Forecast System V2 Became operaDonal in March 2011 Global model: coupled ocean-‐sea ice-‐land-‐atmosphere 1979-‐2011 CFS-‐reanalysis was used to calibrate and iniDalize the CFSv2 but CDASv2 is used to init operaDonal CFSv2 runs T126 horizontal resoluDon (~100km) & 64 verDcal sigma-‐pressure hybrid layers 16 CFSv2 operaDonal runs per day: 4 out to 9 months 3 out to 1 season 9 out to 45 days
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Chiclet Chart
Oldest M
odel Run
Latest
Average grid count
Consistent forecasts with similar average grid counts over many model runs
Possible signals showing up in recent runs or just noise?
One concept in visualizaDon
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CFS chiclet chart and Nov. 17, 2013
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CFS Day 11 & SPC Day 1 on Nov. 17, 2013
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• VerDcal stripes of similar color indicate run-‐to-‐run consistency in SCP>=1 grid counts. – Similar areal extents of environments conducive to severe weather.
• On the website, moving the mouse verDcally upward on a highlighted stripe reveals consistency / trends in SCP-‐environment placement.
• Above the chiclet chart, a graph of quarDle ranges of the SCP grid point count keeps track of the last several forecast runs, in the sense of ensemble staDsDcs.
• Where there are more horizontal stripes indicates more inconsistency between runs.
UDlity in forecasDng
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• hBp://wxvu.net/spc/cfs_scp/
• hBp://wxvu.net/spc/exper/sref/cfsplumes/
Current Links…
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CFS trends to climatology (or worse!)
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• Lead-‐Dme is on the y-‐axis
• Forecast valid Dme is on the x-‐axis
• This puts the model runs on parallel diagonals
• Great for verificaDon as the x-‐axis can be expanded easily
An AlternaDve Display
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All 00Z CFS runs iniDalized in 2014
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• Generally beyond a lead Dme of 10 days, there is larger run-‐to-‐run variability, and less signals for events.
• Another method: By accumulaDng run-‐to-‐run grid point count clearer signals emerge for events up to 3 to 4 weeks in advance.
Accumulate data from past runs
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All 00Z CFS runs iniDalized in 2014
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• Taking a running sum of all SCP grid point counts verifying on the same day produces a climatological curve of CONUS-‐wide SCP.
• Embedded in the curve are spikes where forecast runs have exhibited parDcularly favorable condiDons for severe weather, above climatology.
• Aser removing the climatological curve, long verDcal stripes remain, where SCP has “accumulated” over many forecast runs.
Accumulate data from past runs
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All 00Z CFS runs iniDalized in 2014
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Latest Forecast
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• Currently transiDoning this to an operaDonal product for SPC forecasters.
• ConDnue to expand uDlizaDon of CFSv2 data, including ensemble uncertainty analysis, and other Dme-‐lag ensemble analysis techniques.
• Apply same visualizaDon methodology to GFS ensemble.
• Acknowledgements: NOAA-‐OAR-‐CPO-‐2014 #2003692
Next steps…