Amarillo Radar June 8th???

[Brendon Lindsey]

Well I think I may have seen my biggest storms ever today or something was wrong with Radar Like 10 or 15 storms in TX panhandle with 90+ DBZ!!!! Does that actually happen or was there a glitch?

 

[cstrunk]

It's definitely a glitch of some sort. You can tell that it just doesn't look right. Even the normally weaker returns are pulling in strong returns that just look weird. I have no idea why though!

 

[James Langford]

I don't know what the technical term for it is, but it looks like it hasn't switched into "Storm Mode"? It seems that when there is very little precip around, the radars run in a different mode that is much more sensative.

James

 

[Anthony Petito]

I did a few doubletakes myself when seeing that.. However, to quote Mike Johnson from today's NOW thread:

yep, KAMA is unreliable at this time

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/productview....rsion=1&max=25

parts have arrived but its about a 6 hour job to fix it so they are going to do it tomorrow (along with the build 10 upgrade that includes the super-res data)

 

[Mike Smith]

The radar went out of calibration. This can happen for a number of reasons. The velocity data was good, the reflectivity was far "too hot."

 

[Tim Marshall]

I noticed this too and assumed the AMA reflectivity was too sensitive. However, the location of the Baron shear markers still looked accurate. TM

 

[Kenny Drake]

Yea looks like the Radar Calibration coefficient is WRONG. Who has the ping pong balls?