AWOC Instructional Component

IC Severe 2: Threat Assessment

General Information

Estimated Completion Time

1.5 hours

Description

This IC describes techniques for evaluation of severe weather threats to support effective warning methodologies.

Prerequisite(s)

Capabilities of Kinematic and Thermodynamic Severe Severe Weather Parameters

Lessons

Lesson 1: Outlook and Short-Term Assessment
Description	This lesson describes tasks for outlook (0-24 hr) and short-term (0-6 hr) severe weather forecast duties in a warning methodology. Some of these tasks include pattern recognition, parameter evaluation, and quality assurance of numerical models and observed data sets.
Estimated Completion Time	45 min.
Delivery Method	Online
Resources
Exercises	None
Review Sheets / Hand Outs	Slides with speaker notes.
Student Guide	None.
Reading Material
Required	None
Recommended	See the list from PCUs 2-4 at http://www.nwstc.noaa.gov/nwstrn/d.ntp/meteor/svrpds.html HERE is link to all references for IC Severe 2 (PDF format)

Lesson 2: Lifting Mechanisms
Description	This lesson describes factors in assessing lift such as boundary-relative flow considerations. In addition, the author decribes types of lifting and the effects of orientation of lifting to lines of forcing.
Estimated Completion Time	45 min.
Delivery Method	Online
Resources
Exercises	None
Review Sheets / Hand Outs	Slides and speaker notes
Student Guide	None
Reading Material
Required	List required reading.
Recommended	Diagnosing the Potential for Surface Boundaries to Initiate Convection (WDTB VISIT session at http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/istpds/icu92/icu922web/ic922.html HERE is link to all references for IC Severe 2 (PDF format)

Lesson 3: Updraft Persistence
Description	The lesson is devoted to describing factors for updraft persistence on the mesoscale (low-level moisture pooling along boundaries, detection of horizontal rolls, and boundary interractions). In addition, we will briefly review how you can forecast multicell (MCS) motion using Corfidi vectors.
Estimated Completion Time	30 min.
Delivery Method	Online
Resources
Exercises	None
Review Sheets / Hand Outs	Slides and speaker notes
Student Guide	None
Reading Material
Required	None
Recommended	Use of GOES/RSO imagery with other data for diagnosing severe weather (RSO3); VISIT teletraining available at http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/visit/rso3.html DLOC IC 5.7: http://wdtb.noaa.gov/DLCourses/dloc/ic57/ic57-1-screen.pdf HERE is link to all references for IC Severe 2 (PDF format)

IC Testing

Testing for Instructional Components (IC) is provided to the student using the NWS Learning Management System (LMS). If testing is required, the test must be successfully completed in order to complete the IC.

Pretest

No Practice Test

Test Out

Post Test

Test is Required. Passing Score: 70 %

Contact

Email

Brad Grant

Telephone

(405) 573-3350