Combined with forecasting experiences in Shanghai Meteorological Bureau (SMB), the latest operational progress and future trend of Highresolution Numerical Model (HNM) are summarized. A real time severe storm is analyzed by applying products from SMB’s HNM. Two majors strengths of HNM are pointed out: to promote the predicting ability of forecasters on severe weather and to extened more refined warnings. Some limits of HNM in operational applications are also discussed and, finally, suggestions for accelerating operational application of HNM in China Meteorological Adiministration are proposed, which include setting up Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT), attaching importance to model postprocessing and enhancing forecaster’s training on numerical weather prediction.