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Probability of severe storms

[Image shows two sets of contour maps comparing modeled with observed severe storm probabilities]

Notes:
The experiments produced contoured probabilities of forecast severe storms occurring in comparison with contoured probabilities of observed severe storms (filled contours on the left.) The observed “probabilities” are based on the density of reported severe weather (on the right.) Sometimes it works well (top), and sometimes not so well (bottom.)