Rain wrapped tornadoes

[Rob Gardner]

Slowly but surely I am learning more and more about models and forecasting and relying less on spc convective outlooks. I am curious about the last two days where a majority of the storms had strong rain wrapped tornadoes. I know traditionally supercell can form tornadoes get rain wrapped and recycle forming a new tornado. But with system it seems the tornadoes were more persistently rain wrapped. Question being are there areas in the models that can be looked at that might hint at this? I'm not talking about the difference between LP and HP storms but rather the genesis and progression of HP supercells and their ability to recycle outside of rain cores

 

[James Gustina]

Well here's what i usually look for. Weak winds aloft coupled with lots of moisture being pumped in tend to lead to an HP-ish type storm. That is a very very very broad type of definition on guessing storm type though. Someone else with more education will have to give you a more in depth look.