Dear authors,

Before I send out your manuscript to the reviewers, I would like to fix a few things that are mostly of technical nature.

I had to choose major revisions only for technical reasons. Otherwise the editorial system would not allow me to send your newly submitted manuscript out to the reviewers.

First of all, I acknowledge the re-run of the simulations with an improved design and that you closely followed the reviewers recommendations.

The following small items should be corrected.

- Please go over the whole manuscript to find typos, broken sentences and sloppy formulation, especially in the new text parts.
To name a few
l158: ITS mixing ratio
l168: will BE explained
l207: ITS
l235: turned on
l255: IN
l272-273: ??
l305: ??
l310:

- Check for expressions like "cold temperature". The air is cold. A temperature is not cold, it is low!!

- Unfortunately, it happens that scientists read only the abstract and conclusions. To help those readers, you may write the conclusion in a self-contained fashion. I simply mean, that you could again introduce the abbrevations you us, include a link to Table 2. You may also describe in a few more words what GMA, Stage IV precipitation and MRMS is. Is it model or measurement data?

Greetings,
Simon

Dear Authors,

I' happy to announce that the manuscript can be accepted as is!

Kind regards,
Simon Unterstraßer