The weather prediction center (WPC) of the national weather service (NWS) provides a broad suite of forecast information, including hydro-meteorological forecast products, as well as products for…

The weather prediction center (WPC) of the national weather service (NWS) provides a broad suite of forecast information, including hydro-meteorological forecast products, as well as products for extreme temperature, winter weather and general weather information. These products serve a wide cross-section of professional users as well as NWS forecasters and other internal users. Evolving forecast capacity and technology, as well as user feedback gleaned through social science research and user workshops (hogan carr ET AL, 2016; climate program office 2020; national center for weather and climate prediction 2020), has prompted the need for better understanding of user needs for precipitation forecast products, including the excessive rainfall outlook, mesoscale precipitation discussion, the quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) and the probabilistic QPF, and the extreme precipitation monitor. The development of a new dashboard for urban rain rate forecasting, which provides real-TIM