The Basics…Forecast Funnel
Standard Level Plots for 925, 850, 700, 500, 300, and 200mb levels inclusive of wind direction and speed, heights, and temperature in time lapse (hourly) and for static times (0000 and 1200 UTC)
Basic analyses for above standard plots including thermal and moisture advection, moisture convergence and Q-vectors, cloud water and precipitation type, vertical velocities, vorticity, vorticity advection, net vertical vorticity advection, potential vorticity, jets, thickness, thickness advection, net vertical displacement, precipitable water, and 12-hour change of parameters
Surface Plots of sea level pressure, wind speed and direction, accumulated precipitation, dewpoint in time lapse (hourly) and for static times (0000 and 1200 UTC)