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Fig. 1. T+24-48h CAPE-shear EFI/SOT forecast during forecasts for the tornadic outbreak on 3rd March 2020 over Tennessee, USA.
As a result of taking instantaneous cape and capes at discrete time steps the EFI can exhibit a stripy structure in a the case of fast moving squall lines or very convective fronts as in the example in Fig. 2. Apparently this This is an issue because the cold front is not jumping ratherin reality, it but is moving continuously from the west to the east. Replacing cape and capes with mxcape6 and mxcapes6 removes the stripy behaviour and provides a smoother and more realistic forecast field due to better sampling.
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