Lessons learned and future goals for high-resolution severe storm verification at the National Severe Storms Laboratory

The National Severe Storms Laboratory has conducted the Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE) each summer since 2006. The primary goal of SHAVE is to collect high spatial density verification of hail, wind damage and flash flooding resulting from severe convective storms. These data have been used to verify experimental warnings, and evaluate remote sensing detection techniques and new gridded products. These data include reports of non-severe and null events which allows for a more complete understanding of the events resulting from a storm. There are two primary goals in the future for SHAVE: 1) dual polarized radar verification and 2) public warning response. Examples of collected data, verification/evaluation studies and future applications will be presented.