Verification of Severe Local Storms Forecasts Issued by the National SevereStorms Forecast Center: 1992

摘要

The SELS Unit of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center routinely issuesconvective outlooks and severe local storm watches to delineate areas that are favorable for development of severe local storms. The report summarizes verification of those forecasts that were issued during 1992. The threat of severe local storms was identified well via the second-day outlooks. Prediction of the location of subsequent events improved in the first-day outlooks. During 1992 the SELS Unit issued 940 severe local storm watches. Of these, 348 were tornado watches. There were 13416 severe local storm events during 1992. Of these, 1297 were tornadoes. In terms of the total number of both tornadoes and all events, this was the most active season on record.