Extended Range Tornado Activity Forecasts (ERTAF)

ERTAF is published! https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0188.1

  Dates Forecast Confidence
Week 2 5-24-20 to 5-30-20 A Low
Week 3 NA    


Issued 5-18-2020 at 8:42 PM CDT

ERTAF 2020 has concluded.

An information page with explanation of statistics below can be found here.

FCSTDATE

FCST2START

FCST2END

FCST3START

FCST3END

CLIMO2

CLIMO3

ACT2

ACT3

PN2

PN3

ACT2C

ACT3C

FCST2

FCST3

VERF2

VERF3

3/1/2020 3/8/2020 3/14/2020 3/15/2020 3/21/2020 11 12 7 26 64% 216% A AA A A 1 0
3/8/2020 3/15/2020 3/21/2020 3/22/2020 3/28/2020 12 20 26 27 216% 135% AA A AA A 1 1
3/15/2020 3/22/2020 3/28/2020 3/29/2020 4/4/2020 20 27 27 18 135% 67% A A A A 1 1
3/22/2020 3/29/2020 4/4/2020 4/5/2020 4/11/2020 27 33 18 23 67% 70% A A BA BA 0 0
3/29/2020 4/5/2020 4/11/2020 4/12/2020 4/18/2020 33 37 23 188 70% 508% A AA BA A 0 0
4/5/2020 4/12/2020 4/18/2020 4/19/2020 4/25/2020 37 43 188 107 508% 249% AA AA BA AA -1 1
4/12/2020 4/19/2020 4/25/2020 4/26/2020 5/2/2020 43 58 107 5 249% 9% AA BA AA A 1 0
4/19/2020 4/26/2020 5/2/2020 5/3/2020 5/9/2020 58 64 5 8 9% 13% BA BA BA A 1 0
4/26/2020 5/3/2020 5/9/2020 5/10/2020 5/16/2020 64 57 8 24 13% 42% BA BA A AA 0 -1
5/3/2020 5/10/2020 5/16/2020 5/17/2020 5/23/2020 57 53 24   42%   BA   BA A 1  
5/10/2020 5/17/2020 5/23/2020 5/24/2020 5/30/2020 53 68             AA A    
5/17/2020 5/24/2020 5/30/2020 N/A N/A 68               A      

 

All tornado report data is from the Storm Prediction Center and should be considered preliminary pending final review.

 

Forecast Discussion: No significant signals are present for other than average conditions for week 2. This concludes ERTAF 2020.


Forecasters:   Gensini

 

 

Verification Legend

-1

0

1

More than 50% of Normal Error

No More than 50% of Normal Error

Correct % of Normal Threshold

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An information page with explanation of column headers can be found here.

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Historical Contributors:  John Allen  |  Brad Barrett  |  Victor Gensini  |  David Gold  |  Alan Marinaro  |  Paul Sirvatka Mike Ventrice

 

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