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And forecasters said that it still added value, even when it’s assigning low probabilities relative to storms in the rest of the country!

Love to hear that! We are currently limited to running 10 radars at a time in real time, and we base the domain on SPC outlooks, so the Plains is in focus today. In general and objectively, it’s not great in the west due to limited training data, but we did include a CA case in the testbed last year

In the last 5 years (2020-2024), the NWS Sacramento weather office has issued a total of 8 tornado warnings, with an average of 2 warnings per year.

I don’t think they ended up with actual tornadoes, but they did have a couple of weakly rotating storms, which is also really uncommon up there!

It’s a very interesting setup!

I actually had a similar experience to yours back home in Norway a few years back after the weather service there issued a “tornado watch” for the first time.

Yes! TORP’s skillful range goes out to 160 km. I believe Vancouver BC is about 125 km from KATX.