William Combes
Now that we are close to chase season, what are everyones best sites for models and analysis? I use wright-weather, weather.cod, rap.ucar. Any others out there?
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Mikey Gribble
EF5
I like NCAR and NCEP for just glancing over things. When I start to get interested in a particular day I will go to http://www.theweathercompany.com/toolbox.html
I also like to use the SPC mesoscale analysis page the day of the event.
Jeff Snyder
EF5
I primarily use CoD and http://www.wxcaster.com/models_main.htm ... That second site has ALL SORTS of model information... Want forecast soundings? Check. Want severe weather parameter forecasts (0-3km CAPE, 0-3km EHI, 0-3 VGP, MLCIN, 0-6km Shear, Storm Motion [Bunker's method], Significant Tornado Parameter, Supercell Composite Parameter, etc etc etc)? Want isentropic forecasts? It's all there! Awesome site. Not the easiest to navigate, but Earl has just about every piece of model output you could ever want...
Mikey Gribble
EF5
The http://www.wxcaster.com/models_main.htm is great. I just discovered it this year. It would have been great to have known about it last year. There is a link to it on the site I listed in my previous post.Larry J. Kosch
Thanks guys. Been wondering where in the heck I can find those sites. I set up a new folders in my Favorites under Weather - Models. It's right below the entries for Weather - Storm Track and Weather - Storm Chase.
Good luck on chasing those storms in OK, KS today!!
Andrew Revering
EF3
My personal favorite if www.F5Data.com, but I may be biased.
We have a very tight grid of forecast soundings to choose from with a lot of calculated indices on the right of the soundings, such as Sig. Tor Parameter, 1 & 3km Helicity, 1 & 3km VGP, Jon Davies new ESP parameter, etc.
Also, we're plotting over 140 different map types for both NAM and RUC. We just added some maps to support Jon Davies latest work such as surface vorticity, 3km MLCAPE, 3km Lapse Rate, and ESP. These parameters have worked great in the past few weeks with these cold core systems.
I got a 2 tornadoes on my first chase on 3-30 using some of Davies work on an Iowa storm, and on April 10th I know of 3 Minnesota chasers who went down to Kansas, all to come back with Tornadoes bagged. My point is that the Davies preachings are definately worth taking a look. Find a site that offers the parameters that Jon talks about.
Robert Dewey
EF5
I own a frickin' Storm Prediction Center workstation, and it has every model I want, every parameter I want, modifiable soundings, L2 data for every station available, and locally run Workstation ETA output at 1 hour time steps on a 5km grid, and that's not all; It has the ability to overlay everything on top of each other for in depth analysis :lol:
Cost? Free (well, not including the servers I built, then it would be around $700 total).
When I'm away from all that, it's usually www.weather.cod.edu, www.rap.ucar.edu, and now www.wxcaster.com
Khristian Snyder
EF3
^^^^no fair^^^^ :roll: :cry: :evil: :twisted: :x
Jason Montano
EF4
Only a couple I use that were not mentioned above:
http://www.caps.ou.edu/wx/p/r/spmeso/adas/
http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/models.htmlKyle Masters
EF2
I'm a big fan of using BUFKIT. It's available from the Warning Decision Training Branch at http://www.wdtb.noaa.gov/resources/projects/BUFKIT/. Current profiles to download only need a one-time programming in the BUFGET program. And the current profiles are available from nearly every WFO in the US by following the links on the WDTB page.Similar threads
