Numerous National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Office (WFO) local studies (Amburn and Wolf 1997, Billet et al 1997, Blaes et al 1998, Hart and Frantz 1998, Lenning et al 1998, Roeseler and Wood 1997, Troutman and Rose 1997, Turner and Gonsowski 1997) and national studies (Edwards and Thompson 1998, Witt et al 1998, Witt 2002) looked at the relationship between various conventional rad...