This paper takes a critical look back over the first year of Significant Weather forecast production at the Aviation Weather Center (AWC) using a semi-automated forecast system. During the summer of 1997 the National Weather Service domestic Significant Weather program and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Significant Weather program for the Washington World Area Forecast Center were transferred to the AWC in Kansas City. Discussion is focused on the successes and failures of automatically generating Significant Weather forecast elements from numerical model forecasts. The concept of presenting computer-generated Significant Weather forecasts in final form with unlimited forecaster editing ability is also examined
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