Nina Oakley, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Forest Cannon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Eric Boldt, National Weather Service, Oxnard, United States, John L Dumas, NOAA National Weather Service, Oxnard, CA, United States and F Martin Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States