Lucia Scaff¹, Yanping Li¹, Andreas F Prein², Adam Clark³, Neil M Taylor⁴, Roy Rasmussen⁵ and Zhenhua Li¹, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)NOAA/OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Environment and Climate Change Canada, Meteorological Service of Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (5)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States