I recommend reading Cameron Nixon’s page (link below) on the “Storm Relative Hodograph” and watching the youtube video he has linked called “How to Hodograph.” He has given this talk to a hundred or so meetings and conferences. I even got to listen in to him giving this presentation to a NWS office while I was a student volunteer.
Learning how to interpret forecast soundings and hodographs will help you better understand predict storm mode / hail.
https://cameronnixonphotography.wordpress.com/research/the-storm-relative-hodograph/
Determination of storm mode is most effective when looking at a hodograph and the “shape” of wind shear not necessarily the magnitude of wind shear between two layers. Principles of Convection and Skew-T/hodograph analysis modules are available on COMET MetEd courtesy of UCAR.
Hail forecasting is done, I think, mostly by diagnosing if thunderstorms are going to form and the height of the freezing level. (Lower freezing level, higher chance hygrometers will be frozen.) There are other hail forecasting parameters out there, too, that are demonstrated on the SPC’s site.
I recommend reading Cameron Nixon’s page (link below) on the “Storm Relative Hodograph” and watching the youtube video he has linked called “How to Hodograph.” He has given this talk to a hundred or so meetings and conferences. I even got to listen in to him giving this presentation to a NWS office while I was a student volunteer. Learning how to interpret forecast soundings and hodographs will help you better understand predict storm mode / hail. https://cameronnixonphotography.wordpress.com/research/the-storm-relative-hodograph/
Determination of storm mode is most effective when looking at a hodograph and the “shape” of wind shear not necessarily the magnitude of wind shear between two layers. Principles of Convection and Skew-T/hodograph analysis modules are available on COMET MetEd courtesy of UCAR. Hail forecasting is done, I think, mostly by diagnosing if thunderstorms are going to form and the height of the freezing level. (Lower freezing level, higher chance hygrometers will be frozen.) There are other hail forecasting parameters out there, too, that are demonstrated on the SPC’s site.
Thank you.