^[1] That project will be reported upon in a future publication. [This publication was: Brooks, H.E., C.A. Doswell III, and L.W. Wicker, 1993: STORMTIPE: A forecasting experiment using a three-dimensional cloud model. Wea. Forecasting, 8, 352-362.]

^[2] Straka (personal communication) has used a similar model to forecast maximum downburst winds over Florida in the summer of 1990. Kopp and Orville (1990) have applied two-dimensional models in forecast experiments.

^[3] This implicitly assumes that the user already knows what an appropriate response is. The topic of preparing the users to take proper actions is well beyond the scope of this paper, although it is a nontrivial issue.