Spain 19.08.2015. Solution

Torrential rain was registered during this day in Tabernes de Valldigna (Valencia). The rain registered was of 220 mm (93 mm in one hour), which started around 0700Z. Lack of lightning and deficient radar coverage in this region made this situation extremly difficult to observe (not just forecast).

 

 

News Report from that day

 

Nowcasting

1. The NWC SAF Products seem to help enormously in this day.

2. iSHAI product is detecting an anomaly in the NWP model well in advance.

iSHAI difference in column water vapour between ECMWF NWP field and Satellite at the boudary layer shows a region strongly more moist than the model. This feature is persistent in time from 00Z to 03Z.

iSHAI column water vapour difference at the boundary layer with ECMWF NWP model (iSHAI diffbl) at 03Z

 

3. HRW detects convergence at low levels.

 

At 0400Z a convergence is observed with the HRW Product

HRW wind product at 0400Z

 

 

4. RDT is detecting the convective cells at the same time the radar is.

Finally, a strong convection cell is detected at 0515Z with RDT. At this time, the radar is also showing precipitation echoes (not shown here). After this cell, two more seem to be generated in RDT giving rise to continued precipitation in the same area.

RDT Product at 0515Z

 

CR-Ph precipitation product is not available at this time (it is night time). CRR product does shows slight precipitation at 0700Z.

CRR Product at 0700Z

 

5. Other remote sensing systems detected the situation poorly.

Due to poor radar coverage in this region, the radar data did not pick the situation well

Radar at 0750Z

 

There was not many lightning in this situation, making it, again, difficult to observe

Lightning 19.08.2015 from 00Z to 24Z

The automatic weather stations also did not measure anything extremely significant. Only the local, non-automatic, stations registered 220 mm.

Precipitation from automatic weather stations 18.08.2015 from 00Z to 24Z

 

6. CI did detect a storm in advance

CI Product at 0345Z

which later became a storm as seen by RDT

RDT Product at 0430Z