NEWSLETTER National Weather Association No. 11 – 8 August 2011

NWA 36th Annual Meeting: Oct. 15-20, Birmingham, Ala. “The End Game - From Research and Technology to Best Forecast and Response”

Saturday, October 15

10 am - 1 p.m. NWA Aviation Workshop at the Southern 1 - 7 pm Registration and Information Desk Open Museum of Flight. Contact Terry Lankford [email protected] for more information. 1 pm Exhibit Room Setup: Riverchase Ballroom

10 am - 2 p.m. NWA WeatherFest at the McWane Science Center. Contact James-Paul Dice jdice@.com for more information.

11 am NWA 9th Annual Scholarship Golf Outing at Bent Brook Golf Course - sponsored by Baron Services. For more information or to sign up, Proud sponsor of the contact Betsy Kling ([email protected]). Tee times at 11:30 am and 12:30 pm. 9th Annual Scholarship Golf Outing

Sunday, October 16: Broadcasters Workshop ~ Wynfrey ABC

8:30 am Welcoming Remarks Dr. Patrick S. Market, NWA President, University of 10 am Shelter Seeking Behavior of Tuscaloosa Residents at Columbia, Columbia, MO for a Future Event Jason C. Senkbeil, University of , 8:35 am Opening Remarks Tuscaloosa, AL Nick Walker, and NWA Broadcast Meteorology Committee Chair, Atlanta, GA and 10:15 am Coffee Break; Exhibits Open Mike Goldberg, WSET-TV Lynchburg, VA and NWA 10:45 am Restoring Power After the Tornadoes: Broadcast Meteorology Workshop Chair Understanding Outages and That Confusing 8:45 am Welcome to Birmingham Electric-Utility Jargon , Chief Meteorologist, Pam Boyd, Storm Center Director, Alabama Power WBMA-TV, Birmingham, AL Company, Birmingham, AL 9 am Introduction to Tornado Session 11 am Social Media and its Role in Saving Lives in the Dr. Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA Joplin, Missouri Tornado Brian Davis, KOAM-TV, Joplin, MO 9:15 am The 27 April 2011 : An 11:15 am Challenges in Handling QLCS Tornadoes: Or Are Overview of the Severe Weather Coverage They Tornadoes? Plan Implemented by WBRC Television Daniel McCarthy, Michael Ryan and David Tucek, James P. Dice, Chief Meteorologist, and Wesley NOAA/, Indianapolis, IN A. Wyatt, Weekend Meteorologist, WBRC-TV, Birmingham, AL 11:30 am The Haboob from Hell: The Filthy Look at These 9:30 am New Social Technology and its Effectiveness Monsters of the Monsoon and the One That During the 27 April 2011 Alabama Tornado Swallowed Phoenix Outbreak Sean McLaughlin, KPHO-TV, Phoenix, AZ Ted McInerney and Kalee Dionne, WIAT-TV, 11:45 am A Review of Significant Weather Events Birmingham, AL Occurring in 2011 Greg Carbin, NOAA/National Weather Service/Storm 9:45 am The Residents of Smithville, MS: What Worked Prediction Center, Norman, OK and What Didn’t Work During an EF5 Tornado Michael Brown (Chair, NWA Broadcast Meteorology 12:15 pm Lunch on your own Testing), Kathy Sherman-Morris and Brittany Bell, State University, Starkville, MS Broadcasters Workshop continued Sunday, October 16: Student Session ~ Wynfrey D

1:30 pm On Communicating Weather and Climate 12 pm Welcoming Remarks Information Dr. Patrick Market, NWA President, University of H. Michael Mogil, How The Weatherworks, Naples, FL Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO 1:45 pm Climate Change Workshop Preview Steve Harned CCM (NWA President 1992), NWA Dr. Ed Maibach, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Executive Director, Raleigh, NC 2 pm The Nashville of 2010: A Broadcaster’s 12:15 pm Leadership Skills for New Scientists Perspective John Ogren, Director NWS Training Center, NOAA/ Davis Nolan, WKRN-TV, Nashville, TN National Weather Service, Kansas City, MO 2:15 pm Overview of the Hydrometeorological Prediction 12:45 pm Job Prospects You Never Considered Center (HPC) Precipitation and Steve Harned CCM (NWA President 1992), NWA Products and Services Executive Director, Raleigh, NC Michael Eckert, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD 1:15 pm Government Opportunities for Meteorologists and 2:30 pm Preview of NPP Satellite: Launching October 25, Atmospheric Scientists 2011 Dr. Andrew L. Molthan, NASA SPoRT Center and Joe Witte, NASA Goddard, Arlington, VA NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL 2:45 pm GOES-R for Broadcast Meteorologists: Going from 1:45 pm Now for Something Completely Different a Trickle to a Fire Hose Wendy Schreiber-Abshire (NWA Councilor), UCAR Dan Satterfield, WHNT-TV, Huntsville, AL COMET, Boulder, CO 3 pm Coffee Break; Exhibits Open 2:15 pm Resume and Interview One-on-Few Workshop (break included) 3:30 pm The Latest NHC Developments Meet with representatives from government, private and Bill Read (NWA President 2003), Director, NOAA/NWS/ media sectors National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL 3:45 pm New NOAA-Derived Data Products for the TV 4 pm Career Panel Discussion - Participants Interview Broadcast Market the Interviewers! Elizabeth Valenti, WorldWinds, Inc., Slidell, LA Dr. Patrick Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State University, 5 pm Dinner on your own Stennis Space Center, MS 6:30 pm Student Poster Session: Wynfrey E Robert Dreisewerd, Baron Services, Huntsville, AL Ralph R. Ferraro (Chair, NWA Remote Sensing 8:30 pm Student DVD Critique Committee), NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD 4 pm Moonstruck Meteorology Joe Rao, News 12 Westchester/Hudson Valley, Yonkers, NY WELCOME JULY’S NEW NWA MEMBERS 4:15 pm Broadcast Meteorology in 2011: A Salary Survey of Broadcast Meteorologists Regular/Military/Retired Student Mark Reynolds, Chief Meteorologist, WJHL-TV, Johnson Maghan Avery Jason Atcho City, TN Eric Bentley Jason Black 4:30 pm Panel Discussion: Broadcast Meteorology—The Christine Blais James Bragg Current State of the Business Amanda Bowen James Brunke Michael Buchanan Julie Budd 5:15 pm Announcements/Dinner on your own Mark Conner Martin Cornick 6 pm Climate Change Workshop (sign up required) Amanda Cox David Glenn 7 pm DVD Swap David Culmore Brian Hirsch Nick Walker, The Weather Channel and NWA Broadcast Shawn Hill Shelley Jeltema Meteorology Committee Chair Daniel Howie Corey Kelly Miles Muzio, KBAK-TV, Bakersfield, CA and NWA Richard Knight Kathryn Prociv Broadcast Seal of Approval Committee Chair Steve Krug Fernanda Ramos 8:30 pm Student DVD Critique Robert Page Scott Rudlosky Brad Panovich Christopher Schwarz Kayla Perrier Jessica Showers Ari Sarsalari Michael Sils John Springer Courtney Spamer James Washington Lindsay Tardif-Huber Frank Waugh Ceaser Webb Rob White

2 National Weather Association ~ www.nwas.org Monday, October 17: General Session ~ Wynfrey ABC

7:30 am Weather Briefing 11 am The - North and Central 7:45 am Welcoming Remarks Pat Market, NWA President, University of Missouri at Steven Nelson and Lans P. Rothfusz, NOAA/National Columbia, Columbia, MO Weather Service, Peachtree City, GA Steve Harned CCM (NWA President 1992), NWA Executive 11:15 am An Examination of the Tornado Warnings across Director, Raleigh, NC Alabama from 27 April 2011 Jim Stefkovich, Chair, 2011 NWA Annual Meeting Kevin B. Laws, NOAA/National Weather Service, Program Committee, NOAA/National Weather Service, Birmingham, AL and Christina C. Crowe, NOAA/National Birmingham, AL Weather Service, Huntsville, AL 8 am Keynote Address 11:30 am Use of NASA Satellite Data in Tornado Damage Dr. Larry DeLucas Path Assessment Professor, Birmingham and former Brian Carcione, NOAA/National Weather Service, NASA Astronaut, Birmingham, AL Huntsville, AL; Kevin Laws, NOAA/National Weather Session I: 27th April 2011 Deep South Outbreak I Service, Birmingham, AL; Gary Jedlovec and Andrew Molthan, NASA SPoRT Center and MSFC, Huntsville, 8:30 am The Record Breaking 2011 Spring Tornado Season: AL; Matthew Smith, NASA SPoRT Center/University Historic Perspectives and Challenges for the Future Russell Schneider, Greg Carbin and Andy Dean, NOAA/ of Alabama in Huntsville and Frank LaFontaine, NASA NWS/ and Harold Brooks, NOAA/ SPoRT Center/Raytheon Corp., Huntsville, AL OAR/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK 11:45 am Lunch on your own 8:45 am Quantifying the Significance of the 26-27 April 2011 Session III: Missouri Tornadoes and Radar I Severe Weather Outbreak 1 pm Warning Operations and Decision Making for the Matthew S. Stalley, Chad M. Gravelle and Charles E. St. Louis Tornadoes on Good Friday, 22 April 2011 Graves, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO and John P. Fred H. Glass (Chair, NWA Awards Committee), NOAA/ Gagan, NOAA/National Weather Service, Springfield, MO National Weather Service, St, Louis, MO 9 am The Rare Synoptic and Mesoscale Setup Leading to 1:15pm Factors Contributing to the Lack of Fatalities and the 27 April 2011 Tornado Outbreak Significant Injuries with April 22, 2011 St. Louis Dr. Timothy A. Coleman, University of Alabama in Missouri EF-4 Huntsville, Huntsville, AL Laura Kanofsky, NOAA/National Weather Service, St. Louis, MO 9:15 am Evolution and Impacts of the 27 April 2011 Early Morning Quasi-Linear Convective System 1:30 pm NWS Operations and Decision Support During Andy Kula and Stephen Latimer, NOAA/National and Following the 22 May 2011 Joplin Missouri Weather Service, and Dr. Kevin Knupp and Dr. Timothy Tornado Coleman, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Andy Foster, Andy Boxell, John Gagan, Michael Griffin and AL Jon Kurtz, NOAA/National Weather Service, Springfield, MO 9:30 am Analysis of the MCV on the Morning of 27 April 2011 1:45 pm 22 May 2011 Southwest Missouri Tornadoes Stephanie Mullins and Kevin Knupp, University of including the Historic EF-5 Rated Joplin Tornado Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL Jason S. Schaumann, Eric Wise, John Gagan and Andy Boxell, NOAA/National Weather Service, Springfield, MO 9:45 am Preliminary Investigation of the Thermodynamic Environment Preceding the April 27, 2011 Tornado 2 pm Dual-Polarimetric Radar-based Tornado Debris Outbreak in the Southern U.S. Paths Associated with EF-4 and EF-5 Tornadoes John M. Lanicci, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, over Northern Alabama during the Historic Daytona Beach, FL Outbreak of 27 April 2011 Lawrence D. Carey, Christopher J. Schultz and Elise V. 10 am Coffee Break. Exhibits Open: Riverchase Ballroom Posters Open: Wynfrey Ballroom DE Schultz, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Walter A. Petersen, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Patrick Session II: 27th April Deep South Outbreak II N. Gatlin and Kevin R. Knupp, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Andrew L. Molthan and Gary J. Jedlovec, 10:30 am A Stormscale and Damage Survey Analysis of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and Christopher B. East-Central Mississippi Violent Tornado of April Darden, NOAA/National Weather Service, Huntsville, AL 27, 2011 Greg Garrett and Eric Carpenter, NOAA/National Weather Service, Jackson, MS 2:15 pm The Experimental Warning Program 2011 Spring Experiment at the NOAA Hazardous Weather 10:45 am The Small Mississippi Town That Disappeared: The Testbed Smithville, Mississippi Tornado of 27 April 2011 Greg Stumpf, CIMMS NOAA/NWS; Travis Smith, Kevin Richard Okulski (Chair, NWA Specialized Operational Manross and Kristin Kuhlman, CIMMS NOAA/OAR/NSSL Services Committee), Zwemer Ingram and Joseph Lowery, and Chris Siewert, CIMMS NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK NOAA/National Weather Service, Memphis, TN

August 2011 ~ Newsletter 3 Monday’s General Session continued

2:30 pm Characteristics of Mesovortex Evolution During 4:15 pm The 11 June 2010 Tragic Flash Flood at the Albert the 13 May 2010 Severe Bow Echo Event over Pike Campground Northeast Christopher C. Buonanno, NOAA/National Weather Ron W. Przybylinski, NOAA/National Weather Service, Service, Little Rock, AR St. Louis, MO and Karen Hatfield, Brad McGavock, Steve Amburn and Steve Piltz, NOAA/National Weather Service, 4:30 pm September 2010 Minnesota and Tulsa, OK – Responding to Flooding at a Time of Year That Typically Does Not Flood 2:45 pm The Use of Dual Polarimetric Tornadic Debris Diane Cooper and Dan Effertz, NOAA/National Weather Signatures in an Operational Setting Service, Twin Cities, MN and Mike Welvaert, NOAA/ Christopher J. Schultz and Elise V. Schultz, Dept of National Weather Service, LaCrosse, WI Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Christopher B. Darden, Brian C. Carcione, Christina C. 4:45 pm Overview of a Heavy Rain/Snow Event in the Crowe and David J. Nadler, NOAA/National Weather Southern Panhandle on 11-12 November 2010 Service; Lawrence D. Carey, Earth System Science Center, Christine Krause, NOAA/National Weather Service, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Walter A. Petersen, Amarillo, TX NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Patrick N. Gatlin, Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in 5 pm The Record Flood of 2011 in the Lower Ohio Valley Huntsville, and Kevin R. Knupp, Dept of Atmospheric Pat Spoden, Mary A. Lamm and Martin Luecke, NOAA/ Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, National Weather Service, Paducah, KY Huntsville, AL 5:15 pm Session Ends 3 pm Coffee Break; Exhibits Open and Poster Session 6:30 pm Tailgate Party - Riverchase Ballroom Session IV: Flooding (Session Co-Chairs: TBD) Don’t forget to wear your school colors and nametag 4 pm Historic May 2010 Mid-South Flood Kyle Berry, Dr. Joshua Durkee, Lee Campbell, Dustin Jordan, Dr. Gregory Goodrich, Rezaul Mahmood and Stuart Foster, Western University, Bowling Green, KY Tuesday, October 18: General Session ~ Wynfrey ABC

7:30 am Weather Briefing 9:30 am Total Visualizations to Enhance Forecast Operations 8 am Keynote Address Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO Inc./ NASA SPoRT Center, Bill Proenza and Brian Carcione, NOAA/National Weather Service, National Weather Service, Southern Region Director, Fort Huntsville, AL Worth, TX 9:45 am Operational Convective Diagnosis: Patterns and Session V: Weather and Forecasting I Attributes of Non-Severe and Severe Storms 8:30 am Overview of Summer Convection Study over Central Ben Crocker, Nivash Rampersad and Paul J. Croft, Kean Alabama University, NJ Scott W. Unger, Kevin B. Laws, Gary D. Goggins and Jessica Talley, NOAA/National Weather Service, 10 am Coffee Break. Exhibits Open: Riverchase Ballroom. Birmingham, AL; Jonathan Case, ENSCO Inc./ NASA Posters Open: Wynfrey DE SPoRT Center, Huntsville, AL and Tara N. Golden and Session VI: Decision Support Services Holly M. Britton, NOAA/National Weather Service, 10:30 am Thirty Years of Space Shuttle Weather Decision Birmingham, AL Support at the NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group 8:45 am The Magic of Moisture in NWP Frank Brody (NWA Councilor) and Tim Garner, NOAA/ Jordan J. Gerth (Student member, NWA Council), NWS/SMG, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX CIMSS/SSEC/University of Wisconsin at Madison, 10:45 am An Integrated Approach to NWS Response For Madison, WI High Impact Events 9 am Predictability of High Impact Weather during the Tom Bradshaw, NOAA/NWS/Southern Region Cool Season over the Eastern U.S. Headquarters, Fort Worth, TX Jeffrey Tongue (Co-Chair, NWA Education Committee), 11 am Forecasting for Renewable Energy - Wind NOAA/National Weather Service, , NY, Brian A. Joel Cline, NOAA/NWS Headquarters - Department of Colle and Edmund Chang, Stony Brook University, Stony Energy, Washington, DC Brook, NY 11:15 am Impact-based Decision Support Services Provided to 9:15 am Using CG lightning as a Forecasting Tool for Severe the Enbridge/Kalamazoo, Oil Spill Michael J. Hudson, NOAA/National Weather Service, Matthew Reagan and Michael Brown (Chair, NWA Kansas City, MO, Daniel Cobb, NOAA/National Weather Broadcast Meteorology Testing), Mississippi State Service, Grand Rapids, MI and Richard Wagenmaker, University, Starkville, MS NOAA/National Weather Service, Detroit/Pontiac, MI

4 National Weather Association ~ www.nwas.org Tuesday’s General Session continued

11:30 am Implementation of a Road Surface Model in the 4:15 pm From Warning to Action: Lead National Weather Service Time and Personal Protection Decisions During the Jonathan J. Rutz, NOAA /NWS/WRH/SSD, April 27, 2011 Tuscaloosa Tornado Salt Lake City, UT David M. Brommer and Jason C. Senkbeil, Department of Geography, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 11:45 am Lunch on your own Session VII: Winter Weather (Session Co-Chairs: TBD) 4:30 pm Preliminary Look at Public Perceptions of and 1 pm Evaluation of the Methodology for Forecasting Responses to Warnings in the 27 April 2011 Winter Precipitation Type Tornado Outbreak Joseph Puma (student; summer intern), Faye Barthold, Kim Klockow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Mike Bodner, Keith Brill and Edwin Danaher and Stephanie Mullins and Elise Schultz, University of NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 4:45 pm 1:15 pm Forecasting Freezing Drizzle: The February 3-4, The Residents of Smithville MS: What Worked and 2011 Event in Corpus Christi, Texas What Did Not Work During an EF-5 Tornado Zachary Finch, NOAA/National Weather Service, Corpus Michael Brown (Chair, NWA Broadcast Meteorology Christi, TX Testing), Kathy Sherman-Morris and Brittany Bell, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS 1:30 pm Conceptual Models of Heavy Snow over East 5 pm Vancouver Island Warning Success Rate: An Evaluation of Convective Rodger WU, Pacific Storm Prediction Centre/National Lab Warning Utilization by the General Public for Coastal and Mountain Meteorology, EC, Peter L. Wolf, NOAA/National Weather Service, Brad Snyder, Pacific Storm Prediction Centre, EC, and Jacksonville, FL and Christopher Godfrey, M. Goldsbury, Ruping Mo and Paul Joe, National Lab for Coastal J. Caudill and D. Wedig, University of at and Mountain Meteorology, EC, Vancouver, BC, Asheville, Asheville, NC 5:15 pm 1:45 pm Forecast Challenges Associated with two Significant Atlanta Integrated Warning Team Workshop: Winter Storms for the Washington DC /Baltimore Working Together To Save Lives Jessica Fieux and Shirley Lamback, NOAA/National Metro Area: 26 December 2010 and 26 Weather Service, Peachtree City, GA and Daniel Dix, The January 2011 Steven M. Zubrick, (NWA President 2010), Christopher Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA Strong, Andrew Woodcock and Brian Lasorsa, NOAA/ 5:30 pm Session Ends; Exhibits close National Weather Service, Sterling, VA and Michael 7 pm Town Hall Meeting Eckert, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD 2 pm The Inaugural HMT-HPC Winter Weather Experiment Wed. Oct. 19: General Session ~ Riverchase Ballroom David Novak, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD, Faye Barthold, NOAA/NWS and I.M. Systems Group, Inc., Mike 7:30 am Weather Briefing Bodner, Dan Petersen and Rich Bann, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD Session IX: Radar II and Severe Weather I 2:15 pm Comparison of the NAM and ARW Forecasts during 8 am Identifying Significant Severe-Sized Hail with the Devastating 2006 Thanksgiving Ice Storm in S-Band Dual-Polarization Radar Shenandoah National Park Clark Payne, Leslie R. Lemon (NWA President 2001) and Michael Eckert, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD Cynthia A. Van Den Broeke, CIMMS/OU & NOAA/NWS/ 2:30 pm Impacts in the Washington DC Metro Area WDTB, Norman, OK and Paul T. Schlatter, NOAA/NWS/ Resulting from the Convective Wintertime Event of OASST, Silver Spring, MD 26 January 2011 Michelle Cohen, Tufts University, Boston, MA, and 8:15 am Use of Dual-Polarization Radar to Assess Low- Heather Sheffield and Steven M. Zubrick (NWA President Level in Severe 2010), NOAA/National Weather Service, Sterling, VA Near-Storm Environments in the 2:45 pm The Use of High Resolution Models in Forecasting Valley The Deep South Ice Storm of 10 January 2011 Christina C. Crowe, NOAA/National Weather Service, Bryan Mroczka, Todd Lericos and Jeffrey D. Fournier, Huntsville, AL; Christopher J. Schultz, University of NOAA/National Weather Service, Tallahassee, FL Alabama in Huntsville; Matthew Kumjian, CIMMS NWS/ 3 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session OAR/LCI, Norman, OK; Lawrence D. Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville and Walter A. Petersen, NASA Session VIII: Societal Impacts Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 4 pm Understanding the Public’s Protective Action Decisions from Weather Warnings: Why Some 8:30 am Dual-Polarimetric Doppler Radar Debris People May Make the Wrong Decisions Dr. Laura Myers, Social Science Research Center, Signature Characteristics of a Long-Track Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS EF-5 Tornado Leslie R. Lemon (NWA President 2001), Cynthia A. Van Den Broeke, and Clark Payne, CIMMS/OU & NOAA/ NWS/WDTB, Norman. OK and Paul T. Schlatter, NOAA/ NWS/OASST, Silver Spring, MD August 2011 ~ Newsletter 5 Wednesday’s General Session continued

8:45 am Observations and Operational Importance of 1:30 pm WAF Town Hall Wave Like Features Interacting with QLCS 3 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session Todd A. Murphy, Ryan A. Wade, Timothy A. Coleman and Kevin R. Knupp, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Session XI: Emerging Technologies Huntsville, AL 4 pm Training Success Achieved Through 9 am Improving High Impact Weather Forecasts Interactive Simulations. with Combined GOES-R Measurements and Jon W. Zeitler, NOAA/National Weather Service, Austin- advanced infrared soundings from JPSS San Antonio, TX and Kurt M. Van Speybroeck, NOAA/ Jun Li, CIMSS, University of Wisconsin at Madison, NWS/Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX Madison, WI; Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, 4:15 pm An Update on NWS Use of Social Media. Madison, WI; Jinlong Li, CIMSS, University of Wisconsin Michael J. Hudson, NOAA/National Weather Service, at Madison, Madison, WI; Hui Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO Kansas City, MO; Ronald C. Jones, NOAA/NWS Silver and Jing Zheng, CIMSS, University of Wisconsin at Spring, MD; David Billingsley (NWA Councilor), NOAA/ Madison, Madison, WI NWS Fort Worth, TX; Darone K. Jones, NOAA/NWS Salt 9:15 am Measured Severe Convective Wind Gust Lake City, UT; Corey Pieper, NOAA/NWS Fort Worth, Climatology of and Associated TX; David Manning, NOAA/NWS Bohemia, NY; Duane Carpenter, NOAA/NWS Honolulu, HI; Donald Moore, Convective Modes for the Contiguous United NOAA/NWS Anchorage, AK; Bradley Mabe, NOAA/ States, 2003-2009 NWS Camp Springs, MD; Michael Gerber, Peter Pickard, Bryan Smith and Richard L. Thompson, NOAA/NWS/ Wendy Levine and Tim Ross, NOAA/NWS Silver Spring, Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK MD and Christopher Sisko, NOAA/NWS Miami, FL 9:30 am Coffee Break. Posters Open: Foyer Area 4:30 pm NWS Modernization of Post Event Data Session X: Tropical and Severe Weather II Gathering Utilizing GIS and the Experimental 10:00am Preliminary Investigations of Collapsing Damage Assessment Toolkit Gary D. Goggins, NOAA/National Weather Service, Precipitation Cores and Strong Wind Gusts in Birmingham, AL and J. Parks Camp, NOAA/National Hurricane Eyewalls Weather Service, Tallahassee, FL Keith G. Blackwell, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 4:45 pm Incorporating General Aviation Volunteers 10:15 am Physical Assessment of Hurricane Rapid into Aerial Damage Surveys John Gordon (NWA Councilor & Chair, NWA Intensification using Kernel Principal Membership & Marketing Committee) and Brian Component Analysis Schoettmer, NOAA/National Weather Service, Andrew Mercer and Jamie Dyer, Mississippi State Louisville, KY University, Starkville, MS 5 pm Warning Strategies and Operational Decisions 10:30 am Discriminating EF4 from EF5 Tornado - Historic New Year’s Eve Tornado Outbreak Strength 2010 James G. LaDue, NOAA/NWS/Warning Decision Jim Sieveking, NOAA/National Weather Service, St. Training Branch, Norman, OK Louis, MO 10:45 am Utilizing a Lightning Safety Toolkit for 5:15 pm Weather Decision Support Outdoor Venues Service for the Aviation Community - An Charles Woodrum, NOAA/National Weather Service, Pittsburg, PA and Donna Franklin, NOAA/NWS/ Update on the National Weather Service’s OCWWS, Silver Spring, MD Golden Triangle Initiative Brandon Smith, NOAA/NWS Eastern Region 11 am A Comparison of the 27 April 2011 North Headquarters, Bohemia, NY and Jeffrey S. Tongue (Co- Alabama Tornado Outbreak to the 3 April Chair, NWA Education Committee), NOAA/National 1974 Super Tornado Outbreak and a Weather Service, New York, NY Previously Developed “What If” Scenario for a 5:30 pm Building a Weather-Ready Nation North Alabama Tornado Outbreak Laura K. Furgione, NOAA/National Weather Service Dr. Greg G. Gaston, University of North Alabama, Deputy Director, Silver Spring, MD Florence, AL; Christopher P. Darden, NOAA/National Weather Service, Huntsville, AL and Timothy W. 6 pm GOES Users’ Conference registration, Troutman, NOAA/National Weather Service, reception and Poster Session Morristown, TN Details at http://directreadout.noaa.gov/GUC_VII/ 11:15 am NWA Annual Awards Luncheon Wynfrey CDE 1 pm A Review of Significant Weather Events Occurring in 2011 Greg Carbin, NOAA/NWS/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK

6 National Weather Association ~ www.nwas.org Thursday, October 20: NWA Annual Meeting/GOES Users’ Conference Joint Session ~ Wynfrey CDE

7:30 am Weather Briefing NWA General Session ~ Wynfrey C Session XII: Weather and Forecasting II 8 am Welcome and Opening Remarks 1 pm The Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting James Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, GOES-R Program Office, Component of the 2011 NOAA Hazardous Greenbelt, MD Weather Testbed Spring Experiment 8:05 am Keynote Address David Novak, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD; Faye Gregory Mandt, NOAA/NESDIS, Director, GOES-R Barthold, NOAA/NWS and I.M. Systems Group, Inc.; Robert Program Office, Greenbelt, MD Oravec, Bruce Sullivan and Andrew Orrison, NOAA/NWS/ HPC, Camp Springs, MD 9 am The GOES-R Proving Ground Partnership James Gurka and Steve Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS, GOES-R 1:15 pm Overview and Update of the HPC Medium Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; Timothy Schmit, NOAA/ Range Forecast Program NESDIS/STAR, Madison, WI; Anthony Mostek, NOAA/ Michael Schichtel, Dave Novak, Chris Bailey and Keith Brill, NWS, Boulder, CO and Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS/ NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD RAMMB, Fort Collins, CO 1:30 pm Estimation of Black Globe Temp for Calculation 9:15 am NWS Field Perspective of the GOES-R Proving of the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Index Ground Steven F. Piltz, NOAA/NWS, Vincent Dimiceli, Oral Roberts Jeffrey P. Craven (NWA Treasurer), Marcia Cronce and University and James Frederick and Steve Amburn, Steve Davis, NOAA/National Weather Service, Milwaukee/ NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK Sullivan WI 1:45 pm Improving the Science and Effectiveness of 9:30 am GOES-R Proving Ground Activities at the Gridded Forecast Methods National Hurricane Center Steve Keighton, NOAA/National Weather John L. Beven II and Michael Brennan, NOAA/NWS/ Service, Blacksburg, VA, Josh Korotky, NOAA/NWS, National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL; Mark DeMaria and Pittsburgh, PA John Knaff, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO and Chris Velden, CIMSS, Madison, WI 2 pm Summer 2011 Validation of WFO Miami WRF Runs 9:45 am The ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager) on the Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL, Juan Ramos, GOES-R Series University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, and Joseph Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Madison, WI, Maloney and Jeral Estupinan NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL James Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD and Mathew M. Gunshor, CIMSS, 2:15 pm NASA SPoRT Initialization Datasets for Local Madison, WI Model Runs in the Environmental Modeling System 10 am Coffee Break. Posters Open: Riverchase Ballroom Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO Inc./ NASA SPoRT Center, 10:30 am High Impact Weather Forecasts and Warnings Huntsville, AL, Frank J. LaFontaine, NASA SPoRT Center/ with the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Raytheon, Huntsville, AL, Andrew L. Molthan, NASA Mapper (GLM) SPoRT Center & Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Steven Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, AL and Robert A. Rozumalski, NOAA/NWS/Forecast Greenbelt, MD, Richard Blakeslee and William Koshak, Decision Training Branch, Boulder, CO NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL and Douglas Mach, University 2:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL Session XIII: Multifarious 10:45 am GOES Data and Products in the Space Weather 3:30 pm A Comparison of Statistical versus Explicit Forecast Office Convective Model Precipitation Forecasts Rodney Viereck, NOAA/NWS/SWPC, Chief, Space Weather during the Summer Convective Season in Services Branch, Boulder, CO Tallahassee, 11 am How AWIPS II will bring GOES-R Capabilities Jeffrey D. Fournier, Bryan Mroczka and Todd Lericos, and Science to the Field NOAA/National Weather Service, Tallahassee, FL Jordan J. Gerth (Student member, NWA Council), CIMSS/ 3:45 pm Way Up North: Impacts of Weather on the SSEC/University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI People of Alaska 11:15 am Advancements Toward Fused Satellite, Radar, Stephen Kearney, NOAA/NWS, Fairbanks, AK NWP, and In-situ Aviation Weather Decision 4 pm Radar Analysis and Warning Issues of a Support Tornado Producing Bow Echo on 13 May 2010 Wayne Feltz, SSEC/CIMSS University of Wisconsin at Steve Amburn, Steven Piltz, Ed Calianese, Karen Hatfield Madison, Madison, WI and Brad McGavock, NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK 11:30 am GOES-R Post Launch Activities 4:15 pm Using Tsunami Perceptions to Measure Climate Vanessa Griffin, Satya Kalluri and Christopher Wheeler, Change Literacy NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD Antonia Rosati, University of Colorado, Denver, CO 11:45 am Lunch on your own 4:45 pm Closing Remarks 5 pm 36th NWA Annual Meeting adjourns

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