Texas Weather Conference Agenda (Friday, March 3) Start Time General Session (UT CLC Big Tex Auditorium) Presenter Affiliation

800 - 900 AM Early Bird Short Course GOES-R/GR-Analyst

715 AM - 430 PM Registration/Check-In

900 - 910 AM Welcome/Overview and Conference Intent

Session 1a: Severe Weather 1

NOAA National Keynote with Q&A (Severe Weather and 910 - 1000 AM Harold Brooks Severe Storms 910 - 1015 AM Climate?) Laboratory Compiling high-definition aerial drone footage of 1000 - 1015 AM tornado, wind, and flood damage and displaying Duplantis NWS SHV via Esri’s Drone2Map software

1015 - 1045 AM Morning Coffee Break with Refreshments

Session 1b: Severe Weather 1

Damage Assessment Photography by the Texas UT Center 1045 - 1100 AM Wells Civil Air Patrol Space Research 1045 - 1130 AM Travis County Severe Weather VOST: Working 1100 - 1115 AM with the National Weather Service to Disseminate Clarke Austin VOST Information via Social Media Impact-Based Warning Verification in the NWS 1115 - 1130 AM Treadway NWS EWX Southern Region in the IDSS Era

1130 - 100 PM Lunch Break (Cafe is Open)

Session 2: Weather and Climate Extremes

Keynote with Q&A (Hurricanes and Climate Texas A&M 100 - 145 PM Rob Korty Change) University

The 2015 Christmas Weekend Blizzard on the 145 - 200 PM Cobb WFO LUB South Plains – Lessons Learned

UT Bureau of 100 - 300 PM Quantifying Covariational Patterns of Extreme 200 - 215 PM Sun Economic Precipitations in Texas Extremes

Nielson- 215 - 230 PM The Texas Drought Monitor Coordination Webinar TAMU Gammon

Identifying and Messaging the Houston Heat 230 - 245 PM Huffman NWS HGX Threat

South Texas Significant Heavy Rain and Flooding 245 - 300 PM Buchanan NWS CRP Event: May 15-16, 2016

300 - 330 PM Afternoon Break with Refreshments

Session 3: River and Flash Flooding

330 - 445 PM USGS Texas Water Dashboard: Leveraging Innovative Web Mapping Solutions and Twitter to 330 - 345 PM Pearson USGS Distribute Real-time Water Information for the State of Texas

Houston Floods- How are people Dying, and What 345 - 400 PM Wood NWS HGX Can We Do About It? 330 - 445 PM

400 - 415 PM Tax Day Flood of 2016 Linder HCFCD

From Preparedness to Protection: Decision 415 - 430 PM Support Services throughout the Record Sabine Humphrey NWS LCH River Flood of 2016 Potential Hydrologic Impacts from Rainfall Spatio- 430 - 445 PM temporal Characteristics Based on a Dynamic Gao UTA Moving Storm (DMS) Generator

445 - 500 PM Wrap-up and Travel to Domain Social Gathering (5:30-7:30 pm, site TBD)

Break for Evening Texas Weather Conference Agenda (Saturday, March 4) Start Time General Session (UT CLC Big Tex Auditorium) Presenter Affiliation

730 AM - 300 PM Registration/Check-In

800 - 815 AM Welcome/Overview (slight buffer for stragglers)

Session 4: Severe Weather 2

Keynote with Q&A (December 26, 2015 815 - 900 AM Mitchell KXAS-TV Tornado Outbreak)

Radar-detected Mesocyclone Tilt in Tornadic and 900 - 915 AM Serino TAMU 815 - 930 AM Nontornadic Supercells

915 - 930 AM The Middle Red River Valley Saint Patrick’s Day Palmer NWS SHV Supercell An Analysis of the Record Breaking April 2016 930 - 945 AM Hampshire NWS EWX San Antonio Hail Storm

945 AM - 1045 AM Morning Poster Session with Refreshments

Session 5 1045 - 1145 AM 1045 - 1145 AM EM Discussion Panel EM Guests --

1145 AM - 115 PM Lunch Break

Session 6 - Applied Meteorology

Keynote with Q&A (Science/Engineer 115 - 200 PM Liang NWI TTU Advances Community Resilience to Disasters)

Integrated Decision Support Services for ATC 200 - 215 PM Nuñez ZHU CWSU Operations at ZHU and ZFW Airspace 115 - 300 PM Decision Support Services at WFO Corpus Christi: 215 - 230 PM Zabel NWS CRP Past, Present, Future

Real Estate Market Response to Enhanced 230 - 245 PM Simmons Austin College Building Codes in Moore, OK

An Overview of the Tropospheric Ozone Pollution St. Edwards 245 - 300 PM Project (TOPP): Weather Balloons and Surface Morris University Observations in Texas 2004 - Present 300 - 330 PM Afternoon Poster Session with Refreshments

Session 7 - Tropical Session

Keynote with Q&A (Storm Surge Protection 330 - 415 PM Dawson UT-Austin Systems) 330 - 500 PM 415 - 430 PM 2017 Tropical Program Service Changes: Status Oram NWS SRH and Updates Analysis of Tropical Storm Hermine (2010) and Its 430 - 445 PM Sharif UTSA Impacts on Major Watersheds in Austin Texas

A Review of Weather Decision Support for the 445 - 500 PM 2016 Full-Scale Rio Grande Valley Hurricane Goldsmith NWS BRO AirEvac Exercise

500 PM Wrap-up and Closing Comments 24 Requested

Severe Weather (7) Name Title Affiliation Kevin Larson A Spectral Analysis of Intracloud Lightning TAMU Joseph Trujillo Aerosol Impacts on Hail Size Making Use of NOAA SPC Observations TAMU Brittany Toy Comparison of TAMU-WRF Simulated Lightning Products to the Houston Lightning Mapping Array Network TAMU Tyler Fenske Comparing Accuracy of Household Lightning Detectors against the HLMA (Houston Lightning Mapping Array) TAMU Emily Boynton Radar Analysis of the May 26, 2016 Brazos Valley Tornadoes TAMU Penny Zabel 24 Hours of Warnings: A Look Into A Rare Long Duration Severe Event in South Texas NWS CRP Matthew Brown Development of a New Predictive Tool for Storm Environment Downwind of the Appalachian Mountains Using AO and NAO Indices TAMU

River and Flash Flood Forecasting (5) Travis Washington Utilizing the Automated Atmospheric River Detection Technique for three Flooding events across Texas and Louisiana NWS SHV Wen-Ying Wu Towards Developing a Framework for Predicting River Flows on Global Scales UT Austin Jared Allen Performance of NSSL FLASH Data During the Historic 2015 Memorial Day Weekend Flooding Across South-Central Texas NWS EWX Jiaqi Zhang Sensitivity and Performance Analysis of a Potential Flood Forecasting System: Utility of WRF-Hydro Model and Multiple Rainfall Forcings UTA Peirong Lin WRF-Hydro-RAPID Performance in Predicting Recent Texas Hill Country Flash Floods UT Austin

Weather and Climate Extremes (4) Matthew Williams ENSO Transition and Tornado Variability in the Central U.S. TAMU Michael Buchanan Using Satellite-Era Reanalysis Datasets for Synoptic Pattern Recognition of South Texas Heavy Rainfall Events NWS CRP Michael Buchanan GIS Products and Services at the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi, Texas NWS CRP Maryia Halbok Estimation of gross primary production during the drought and normal years over the US using solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence UT Austin

Applied Meteorology (8) Joseph Hill "Student Constructed Weather Instrumentation to Support the New Atmospheric Science Program at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi" TAMU Ryan Musick Financial West Texas Wind Generation Study CPS Energy Christian Landry Evaluation of a New Low-cost Instrument Package: The Texas Instruments SensorTag TAMU Austin Silva Methods of Heat Flux Measurement in a Modular Green Roof System TAMU Brooke Barker Real-time Upper Air Support for NASA Scientific High Altitude Balloon Missions TAMU Armani Cassel Virtual Reality for Collaborative Weather Briefings and Education TAMU Aaron Treadway Bats on Central Texas Radar: An Overview NWS EWX Ty Dickinson The Oklahoma Weather Lab and Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program: How This One of a Kind Partnership is Pioneering Public Aimed Mid-Range Forecasts OU