DOCSLIB.ORG

PRESIDENT'smessage NWA's 26Th ANNUAL MEETING ANNUAL

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
PRESIDENT'smessage NWA's 26Th ANNUAL MEETING ANNUAL NWA NEWSLETTER No. 01-08, 09 Aug-Sep 2001 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE things and meet new people. We have a great agenda with many interesting and thought provoking A National Tragedy presentations. Nevertheless, we realize that plans can While the tragic events of 11 September 2001 in change and people have different ways of dealing America were not meteorological in nature they with events. Institutional, organizational and affect all of us and our friends and countrymen in a corporate decisions may also lead to changes in travel most profound way. Many of our friends, fellow plans citizens, and perhaps even members’ families have All presenters — Please let me know as soon as suffered or died at the hands of terrorism. Who can possible if your plans change and you are unable to imagine what is in the minds of those that would do attend or have to change your presentation time. such evil acts? I believe that peace will eventually Please be sure to monitor the NWA Web site for the rise from the rubble and from so many innocent latest agenda. Your current date and time for deaths. We are embarking on a long national journey presenting will not change unless I coordinate with of suffering and healing and hopefully great you ahead of time. punishment for those who have done this. I request The WestCoast Ridpath hotel still has rooms at the that each of us make those victims, their families, the National Weather Association Conference discount rescuers and cleanup crews, and our country and its rates. If you haven't reserved a room yet, please do welfare, economic and otherwise, subjects of our so soonest by calling 1-800-325-4000. prayers and thoughts for a long time to come. If I am looking forward to seeing you here in there are opportunities to help, I hope all of us will Spokane next month. step forward voluntarily and give freely of our time, - John Livingston, 26th Annual Meeting Co-Chair talents, our words and deeds of kindness, and any [email protected]; (509) 244-0110x222 other resources we can offer. May God bless our membership and all the ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA citizens of our country. Let's also help each other build the stamina to carry on in the important work The NWA Annual Meeting agenda is provided we do in operational meteorology and related herein to crossfeed information on the studies being accomplished. Readers may want to contact authors activities for the public good. - Les Lemon, President for more information. It also provides prospective NWA's 26th ANNUAL MEETING meeting attendees advance information on presentations and workshops to plan their schedules To all NWA Annual Meeting Presenters and accordingly. Thanks to the presenters, exhibitors and Attendees: First I would like to echo the same the many members who volunteered to organize and message that Les Lemon wrote above and also sent assist in this 26th Annual Meeting. I look forward to out on the NWA Homepage (www.nwas.org). I participating in this great event, meeting many encourage you to join me in sending aid, thoughts attendees (from charter members to new members and prayers to the innocent victims of the September and guests), thanking volunteers, and as usual — 11th attacks and their families. learning, sharing and getting ideas for further study. As for the upcoming Annual Meeting, all systems Hope to see you there! - Les Lemon, President are go and at the time I am sending this message the meeting will be held as scheduled. Your NWA Please see Page 7 or the NWA Web site for hotel and leadership and I are looking forward to hosting an annual meeting registration information. exciting conference with the chance to learn new Preregister by 5 October 2001 at discount rates. PRELIMINARY AGENDA for the National Weather 11:30 PM WINNING IN WEATHER. Dave Busiek, Chairman, Association's 26th Annual Meeting, 13-19 October 2001, Radio-Television News Directors Association. KCCI-TV, Des WestCoast Ridpath Hotel, 515 West Sprague Avenue, Moines, IA. Spokane, Washington 99201. 12:00-1:30 PM Lunch on your own; exhibits open All interested individuals (NWA members, prospective 1:30 PM SEVERE WEATHER ANALYSIS WORKSHOP. members and nonmembers) are welcome to register early or on Daniel McCarthy, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NWS the day of your arrival to attend any and all sessions. For Hotel Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK. and travel information, meeting registration fees and a 3:30 PM Afternoon Break; exhibits open registration form, please see page 7. For more information 3:50 PM SEVERE CONVECTION IN WESTERN IOWA AND please see the NWA Web site at www.nwas.org or contact the NORTHERN NEBRASKA OF 17 AUGUST 2001. Shawn NWA office at: (804) 296-9966 or [email protected]. Cable, KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, SD. PRESENTERS please contact your program chairpersons or 4:10 PM IMPROVING TELEVISION WATCH AND the NWA office ([email protected]) immediately if you WARNING GRAPHICS FOR HURRICANES AND have to cancel or request changes. Please report to the NWA TORNADOES. David N. Sattler, Ph.D., Department of registration/information desk at the Ridpath Hotel when you Psychology, Western Institute for Social Research, Western arrive to receive nametags, programs and instructions regarding Washington University, Bellingham, WA. presentation schedule, setup, poster boards (32 in. x 40 in.), AV 4:30 PM NEW INITIATIVES IN WARNING DECISION equipment availability and times to test the AV equipment. TRAINING. Elizabeth Quoetone, NOAA/NWS Warning Decision Training Branch, Norman, OK; NWA Councilor. Saturday, 13 October 2001 4:50 PM WHERE IS TV WEATHER HEADED? Panel Weather Services International (WSI) Corporation will hold Discussion: Moderator, Richard E. Appuzo II, WXIX-TV, training sessions during the day at the Ridpath Hotel for Cincinnati, OH; NWA Broadcast Meteorology Committee Broadcasters using or interested in using WSI products. Those Chairperson. interested can call Kristine Ellsworth at WSI (978) 262-0756 to 5:30 PM Dinner on your own. schedule training times in advance. 7:30 -10:00 PM ANNUAL TAPE SWAP - bring a vhs tape of a 12:00 PM NWA Registration and Information Desk opens in recent weathercast. Bloopers are welcome as are special weather the foyer just outside of the presentation room. Exhibit area broadcasts and student weathercasts. Refreshments will be opens for vendors to setup their exhibits. available. 5:00 PM –8:00 PM Attendees and guests are invited to view 10:00 AM –5:30 PM Exhibit area open in the Ridpath hotel. the exhibits. AccuWeather, Inc., hosts a hospitality suite Sat, Sun and Mon. 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM NWA AVIATION WEATHER 9:00 PM NWA Registration and Information Desk closes. OUTREACH SEMINAR to be held at: Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) Sunday, 14 October 2001 3410 W. Ft. George Wright Drive 7:30 AM –5:30 PM NWA Registration and Information Desk Spokane, WA 99224-5288 will be open each day of the meeting just outside the main - SFCC is approximately 3 1/2 miles or 10 minutes presentation room. from the WestCoast Ridpath Hotel. The SFCC Web 8:30 AM –5:30 PM BROADCASTER WORKSHOPS in site has directions and a campus map at: the Ridpath Hotel NWA meeting presentation room http://www.sfcc.spokane.cc.wa.us/ 8:30 AM WELCOME TO NWA BROADCAST - The Aviation Weather Seminar is an outreach training METEOROLOGY WORKSHOP. Richard E. Appuzo II, effort by the NWA Aviation Meteorology Committee WXIX-TV, Cincinnati, OH; NWA Broadcast Meteorology for the benefit of pilots and other aircrew members, Committee Chairperson dispatchers, weather briefers and all others interested in 8:35 AM PRESIDENT’S WELCOME MESSAGE: Leslie R. aviation weather. Lemon, NWA President, Independence, MO. 9:00-9:50 AM USING AUTOMATED WEATHER 8:45 AM WEATHER AND BROADCASTING IN SPOKANE. OBSERVATIONS. Terry Lankford, Aviation Meteorology Kristina Crocker, KXLY-TV and Tom Sherry, KREM-TV Committee Co-Chair, Author of aviation weather texts and 9:05 AM THE NWA SEAL OF APPROVAL PROGRAM: retired FAA, Pleasanton, CA. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Alan Sealls, WKRG-TV, 10:00-10:50 AM NWS AVIATION WEATHER CENTER Mobile, AL; NWA Broadcast Seal Chairperson FORECAST PRODUCTS. Carolyn M. Kloth, Aviation 9:20 AM NON CLASSIC MESOSCALE CIRCULATIONS. Meteorology Committee Co-Chair; meteorologist at Dr. Mike Brown, Mississippi State University. MS. NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City MO. 9:50 AM THE SIREN, WISCONSIN TORNADO OF 18 JUNE 11:00-11:50 AM APPLYING TERMINAL AERODROME 2001, AND EXAMINATION OF RADAR OBSERVED FORECASTS. Larry Burch, NOAA/NWS CWSU Salt Lake MAXIMUM SHEAR AND DAMAGE PATH. April Robertson City, UT and Jeff Piotrowski, Baron Services, Huntsville, AL. 12:00-1:00 PM Lunch 10:20 AM Morning Break; exhibits open 1:00-1:20 PM NWA PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. Leslie R. 10:40 AM NINE HOURS CONTINUOUS LIVE COVERAGE. Lemon, NWA President Jay Trobec, Chief Meteorologist, KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, SD. 1:20-2:20 PM FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF AVIATION 11:10 AM TUSCALOOSA, AL F-4 TORNADO. James Spann, WEATHER PRODUCTS. Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS Silver Chief Meteorologist, ABC 33/40 Birmingham, AL. Spring, MD 2 2:20-2:50 PM Break Session III: Severe Weather Climatology 2:50-3:40 PM ADDS (Aviation Digital Data Services). Greg 3:15 PM TORNADO TRENDS ACROSS THE UNITED Thompson, UCAR, Boulder, CO STATES 1950-2000. Daniel McCarthy, NOAA/NWS Storm 3:50-5:00 PM General Discussion/Questions & Answers Prediction Center, Norman, OK 5:00 PM Session ends; Dinner on your own 3:30 PM SEVERE WEATHER TRENDS WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. Paul Frisbie, NOAA/NWS Forecast Monday, 15 October 2001 Annual Meeting General Sessions Office, Grand Junction, CO 8:00 AM WELCOMING REMARKS/ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Predicting Supercell Motion Using a New Hodograph Technique
    FEBRUARY 2000 BUNKERS ET AL. 61 Predicting Supercell Motion Using a New Hodograph Technique MATTHEW J. BUNKERS* AND BRIAN A. KLIMOWSKI NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Of®ce, Rapid City, South Dakota JON W. Z EITLER NOAA/NWS Houston/Galveston Weather Forecast Of®ce, Dickinson, Texas RICHARD L. THOMPSON NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, Oklahoma MORRIS L. WEISMAN NCAR/Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, Colorado (Manuscript received 16 December 1998, in ®nal form 13 September 1999) ABSTRACT A physically based, shear-relative, and Galilean invariant method for predicting supercell motion using a hodograph is presented. It is founded on numerous observational and modeling studies since the 1940s, which suggest a consistent pattern to supercell motion exists. Two components are assumed to be largely responsible for supercell motion: (i) advection of the storm by a representative mean wind, and (ii) propagation away from the mean wind either toward the right or toward the left of the vertical wind shearÐdue to internal supercell dynamics. Using 290 supercell hodographs, this new method is shown to be statistically superior to existing methods in predicting supercell motion for both right- and left-moving storms. Other external factors such as interaction with atmospheric boundaries and orography can have a pronounced effect on supercell motion, but these are dif®cult to quantify prior to storm development using only a hodograph. 1. Introduction some form of severe weather (i.e., tornadoes, ¯ash ¯ooding, hail $1.9 cm diameter, wind gusts $25 m s21, a. Background or wind damage) during their lifetime (e.g., Burgess and Although supercells1 have been given considerable Lemon 1991).
    [Show full text]
  • Severe Local Storms Forecasting *
    WEATHER AND FORECASTING VOLUME 7 Severe Local Storms Forecasting * ROBERT H. JOHNS National Severe Storms Forecast Center, Kansas City, Missouri CHARLES A. DOSWELL III National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma (Manuscript received 11 May 1992, in final form 13 August 1992) ABSTRACT Knowledge of severe local storms has been increasing rapidly in recent years as a result of both observational studies and numerical modeling experiments. This paper reviews that knowledge as it relates to development of new applications for forecasting of severe local storms. Many of these new applications are based on physical understanding of processes taking place on the storm scale and thus allow forecasters to become less dependent on empirical relationships. Refinements in pattern recognition and severe weather climatology continue to be of value to the operational severe local storms forecasters, however. Current methodology for forecasting severe local storms at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center is described. Operational uses of new forecast applications, new “real-time” data sources (such as wind profilers and Doppler radars), and improved numerical model products are discussed. 1. Introduction first part of this forecasting process, focusing on the relationship between the severe local storm and its Convective storms produce a wide variety of weather environment. Since the primary forecast product of SELS phenomena that might be considered “severe” (a hazard is the severe weather watch (see Ostby 1993 for a complete to life and property). For purposes of this discussion, description of SELS forecast products), that is the primary however, only those convectively induced phenomena topic within this paper. Other SELS forecast products will forecast by the Severe Local Storms Unit (SELS) of the be mentioned as well, however.
    [Show full text]
  • President'smessage
    NWA NEWSLETTER NO. 07 –05 MAY 2007 In total, the Council meets for about eight hours during PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE the Annual Meeting, and much of this time is devoted to a pre-determined agenda. by Alan Gerard Conversely, the Midyear Meeting is totally devoted to This month more or less marks the middle of the year Council business and discussion, enabling the Council to between Annual Meetings of the National Weather delve more deeply into subjects and to have extended Association. As such, the Council will be holding its discussions about topics critical to the future of the NWA. Midyear Meeting on 18 - 19 May in Raleigh, North The Council meets for about twelve to fifteen hours over a Carolina, the home of the new central office of our two-day period, and can spend as much time as needed organization. The Midyear Meeting is the first opportunity examining a number of items. In recent years, at Midyear for new Council members to meet the rest of the Council Meetings the Council has discussed items such as the and for the new Council as a whole to really begin work future of NWA publications, NWA marketing and on those tasks we wish to accomplish during this year. In membership, and long-term financial planning. Many of this message, I will provide background information on these subjects will be discussed again this year at Raleigh, the Midyear Meeting, and how your Council goes about along with some new topics including the role of the business of helping to steer and guide the NWA.
    [Show full text]
  • Storm Fury on the Plains Spring Spotter Newsletter P a G E 3
    N a t i o n a l Weather Service Storm Fury on the Wichita, KS Inside this issue: Plains Historic 1 Spring Spotter Newsletter A p r i l 2 0 1 3 Snowstorm Buries central and Historic Snowstorm Buries Central and south central Kansas South Central Kansas Annual 4 By: Eric Schminke Tornado Winter 2012-13 had been relatively quiet for central, south central and southeast Information Kansas until February 20th when Old Man Winter and his mythical sidekick, the Meet Jim 6 Abominable Snowman, went into action. Caruso That morning, a strengthening cyclone (Red L in Figure 1) was situated over Fire Weather 7 southern Utah, and Nevada. Information As the day progressed, the winter storm moved slowly east toward then over the Do you know 9 southern Rockies. As time evolved, moisture-rich east southeast flow in the why the lower atmosphere steadily increased, spreading colder, sub-freezing air across sirens sound the Great Plains. As the upper-level cyclone moved east over southern Arizona in your the upper-level directional flow began to diverge over the Central Plains to pro- community? mote increasing deep layer ascent over Oklahoma and southern Kansas. The stage had been set for a winter storm that would prove historic for most of Kan- Despite 10 Recent sas. Precipita- South central Kansas was the first to get snowed upon with 2-4 inch accumula- tion, Drought tions over primarily Harper, Kingman, Sumner, and Sedgwick counties. By late Continues afternoon, the snow had spread due north Winter 15 2012-2013 primarily along and Highlights west of I-135 where accumulations had Severe 18 reached 5 inches in Weather Reporting several locations.
    [Show full text]