The Conrad Blucher Institute’s Division of Nearshore Research (DNR) is collaborating with Waylon Collins, a senior forecaster at the Corpus Christi Weather Forecasting Office, to develop and implement a model that will predict the timing and location of thunderstorms. The model uses an artificial neural network with input from the North American Model (NAM) for the predicted atmospheric state, Average Optical Depth measurements and data derived from high resolution precipitation maps. The model was presented at several conferences and work is ongoing to develop an operational prototype.