Generating Severe Weather Warnings from TITAN and SCIT Thunderstorm Tracks.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has developed a new tool, called ThunderBox, for interactively producing finished severe weather warnings from TITAN and WDSS thunderstorm tracks. The system was used to generate forecast products for the World Weather Research Program, Forecast Demonstration Project associated with the Sydney Olympics. ThunderBox is designed to apply recent advances in radar based thunderstorm cell detection and tracking techniques to the production of operational forecasts and warnings. The system ingests TITAN and WDSS thunderstorm cell detections and tracks, allows graphical editing by forecasters, and produces graphical and text forecasts and warnings from the edited data. The text generator uses a shallow, domain specific approach. The graphical warnings include a map of areas that have been, and are forecast to be affected by storms, as well as meteograms for selected locations.