Thread:Hurricane Layten/@comment-31892889-20170501233044/@comment-26014793-20170502001602

Elijahpijah123 wrote: How do you make custom Convective outlook areas? I mostly use MS Paint or Paint.net. Basically, this is how you do it:

1. Copy an old SPC convective outlook into your Paint file.

2. Use the colour picker to select your coloured risk areas. You'll need to select both the edges and the coloured fill of each category of risk.

3. Draw your own risk area lines and then fill them in. Use the text box to add your risk category or tornado probability numbers.

Hatched areas are a bit trickier. For a hatched area, the best thing to do is to cut a hatched area out of an old SPC outlook, then use the Paint Bucket and/or Eraser tools to clear out the SPC's original background. Once you have the hatched area on a white background, select and cut it, use the Transparent Selection tool, and then paste the hatched area over the risk area you want. Remember that only 10% or higher tornado risk areas can be hatched except in some rare circumstances like May 25 of last year, which had a 5% hatched risk area for the Salina, KS area.