IA NWA Conference Schedule

[Paul Vincent Craven]

I posted an old version of the NWA schedule. Here's the new one.

Paul Vincent Craven, AA0PE
paul_...@raccoon.com
http://www.raccoon.com/~pcraven

SEVERE STORMS AND DOPPLER RADAR CONFERENCE (preliminary schedule)
HOLIDAY INN/DES MOINES AIRPORT, DES MOINES, IA 3-5 APRIL 1998

FRIDAY, 3 APRIL 1998

8:00am-12:00 pm Registration and vendor set up

12:00-12:05 Welcome by John McLaughlin, President, Central Iowa NWA Chapter

12:05 -12:15 Paper presentation

12:15-12:30 Joint Promotion of NOAA WX Radio, Robert Goldhammer, Polk
County, IA Emergency Managment Coordinator. John McLaughlin, Chief
Meteorologist, KCCI-Television, Des Moines, IA.

12:30-12:45 The Future of NOAA Weather Radio: The Console Replacement
System. Michael Hudson, Meteorologist Intern, NWSO, Kansas City/Pleasant
Hill, MO and Andy Kula, National Weather Service, Des Moines, IA.

12:45-1:15 Severe Weather Coordination in Battle Creek, Michigan. Jim
Zoss, Emergency Program Manager, City of Battle Creek, MI and Mike
Heathfield, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service,
Grand Rapids, MI.

1:15-1:45 What Can Be Learned from Storm Damage Surveys? Brian Smith,
National Weather Service, Omaha/Valley, NE.

1:45-2:15 Covering a Tornado Outbreak in Your Own Backyard. Lon Curtis,
KWTX-TV and Bruce Thomas of KCEN-TV, Temple/Waco, TX.

2:15-2:45 An Overview of the Central Texas Tornadoes of 27 May 1997. Troy
Kimmel, Chief Meteorologist/KVET AM 1300 Radio & Lecturer, Weather and
Climate- University of Texas at Austin and Mark Murrary, KVUE-TV, Austin,
TX.

2:45-3:00 On-Air Use of TV Doppler Velocities during 27 May 1997 Texas
Tornadoes. Jim Spencer, KXAN-TV, Austin, TX.

3:00-3:20 Coffee Break

3:20-3:35 A Community Partnership for Dual C-Band Dopplers in South Dakota.
Jay Trobec, KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, SD.

3:35-3:55 Arkansas Tornadoes of 1 March 1997: Media and NWS cooperation. Ed
Buckner, KTHV-TV, Little Rock, AR.

3:55-5:00 Featured Speaker: Ken Crawford, University of Oklahoma. Ken will
be speaking on the need for cooperation between the media, NWS and related
organizations. He will also address the successful implementation of the
internet browser software "OK-First" to distribute emergency weather
information to those charged with decision making in severe weather events.

5:00-5:20 Do We Need to Improve NWS Tornado Warnings? If So, How Do We Do
It? Don Burgess, Nexrad Operational Support Facility, Norman, Oklahoma.

5:20-6:00 Panel discussion on Media-NWS-EMA Cooperation. Troy Kimmel, Al
Moller, Alan Eustis, Ken Crawford, Don Burgess.

6:00-8:00 Dinner Break (on own)

Broadcasters (and other interested attendies) Pizza and Pop Bash sponsored
by Baron Services in NWA hospitality suite (tba)

8:00 until ???: Storm Chase Video Night . Bring the best 10-15 minutes of
your storm chasing.

8:00-8:15 Tips for Shooting Storm Chase Video, Chris Novy, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.

8:15-8:30 North Mississippi Severe Storms Intercept Team (NOMISSIT) has
about 10-15 minutes of video of the complete life-cycle of a relatively
strong tornado that we caught last May near Chickasha, OK. Dr. David Arnold
and Dr. Mark Binkley, Mississippi State University.

8:30-9:00 Ontario Tornadoes of 20 April 1996. Arjen and Jerrine Verkaik,
Authors of Under the Whirlwind, Elmwood, Ontario, Canada.

9:00-9:15 The Ultimate Chase: Inside a Hurricane. Chuck Myers, National
Weather Service, Des Moines, IA.

9:15-9:30 Fighting Prairie Weather Dogs: The Best of '97. Pat McCarthy,
Environment Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

9:30-9:40 Chase video from Dodge City NWS staff: Jeff Hutton and Tim Burke.

9:40-9:50 Don Lloyd (reserved)

9:50-10:05 Jeff Piotrowski, Wichita Tornado 1997

Others presenters to be announced. If you have home video or photographs to
present, email john...@ecity.net.

SATURDAY, 4 APRIL 1998

8:00-8:05 Morning Announcements

8:05-8:15 Morning weather briefing from Weather Central Inc.

8:15-8:35 The WHIPPOORWILL Tornado of June 1978: A Retrospective View on
the Occasion of Its 20th Anniversary. Warren Sunkel, National Weather
Service Central Region Headquarters.

8:35-8:55 Observations of a Tornadic Mini-Supercell near Auburn Nebraska
the evening of May 8, 1995
Steve Byrd, Science Operations Officer, National Weather Service,
Omaha/Valley, NE.

8:55-9:15 Is Three Body Scattering Sufficient Cause for Severe Thunderstorm
Warnings? John McLaughlin, Chief Meteorologist, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA and
Les Lemon, NWA Councilor and Chief Meteorologist, Weather and ATC Programs,
Lockheed Martin Ocean, Radar & Sensor Systems, Independence. MO..

9:15-9:45 Thunderstorm Updraft Identification on Radar. Leslie R. Lemon, NWA
Councilor and Chief Meteorologist, Weather and ATC Programs, Lockheed Martin
Ocean, Radar & Sensor Systems, Independence. MO.

9:45-10:00 Advanced Detection System of Severe Thunderstorms with Canadian
Weather Radars. Patrick McCarthy, Environment Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

10:00-10:20 Coffee Break

10:20-10:40 Using WSR-88D Shear Values During Severe Storm Events, George
Wilken, Science Operations Office, National Weather Service, Little Rock, AR

10:40-11:00 Adapting NEXRAD Mesocyclone and TVS Algorithms to Different
Geographic Regions. Robert Lee, Applications Branch, NEXRAD Operational
Support Facility, Norman, OK.

11:00-11:20 Operational Paradigms and Automated Vortex Detection-Lessons
Learned and Future Thoughts. Gregory Stumpf, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK.

11:20-11:50 What Can We Expect from WSR-88D Build 10. Liz Quoetone, NEXRAD
Operational Support Facility, Norman, OK.

11:50-12:10 pm. NEXRAD Scientific and Technical Evolution-Operational
Implications. Robert Saffle, Nexrad Product Improvement Manager, NOAA/NWS,
Silver Springs, MD, Michael Eilts, NSSL, Norman, OK and Richard Lane, NWS
Office of Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD.

12:10-1:30 Poolside lunch sponsored by Central Iowa NWA

1:30-1:50 Vendor Presentation: Early Results from Processing and Integrating
WSR-88D NIDS and Private C-Band Data, Bob Baron, Baron Services, Huntsville,
AL.

1:50-2:10 WSR-88D Processing and User Services at the National Climatic Data
Center (NCDC). Dick Cram, NCDC, Asheville, NC.

2:10-3:10 Features Speaker: Josh Wurman, University of Oklahoma. Wurman's
Doppler on Wheels (DOW) program has developed mobile radars in order to
collect high spatial and temporal resolution data in a variety of weather
phenomena. The DOWs have collected data in over a dozen tornadoes and one
hurricane. In 1997, the DOWs were used in studying winter storms on the
California coast during El Nino.

3:10-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-3:40 Vendor Presentation: Recent Developments in Television Doppler
Weather Radar. Dr. Larry Davis, Radtec Engineering, Broomfield, CO.

3:40-6:00 Featured Speaker: Alan Moller, NWS, Fort Worth, TX. Advanced
Severe Storms Identification workshop for media, NWS and storm spotters.

6:30-8:00 Poster Presentations with HORS d' OEUVRES and cash bar.

The Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS): It's Applications in Severe
Weather Reporting and Tracking.
Jim Duncan, (KU0G) Kansas City APRS Working Group and Roque Squadron Storm
Chasers.

The Warning Decision process: Cooperation of the NWS and volunteer spotters
during a common weak tornado case.
Brad Ketcham, Meteorologist-Forecaster, National Weather Service , Lincoln,
IL

Warren County, Iowa brief tornado. Paul Vincent Craven, Indianola, IA.

Richard Smith, Memphis NWS

Others posters to be announced

8:00-10:00 Under the Whirlwind! Join Arjen and Jerrine Verkaik, Canadian
sky photographers and tornado chasers, for a lively talk about their three
decades of storm chasing and photography throughout North America,
illustrated with photographs from their vast collection (50,000) of glorious
skies, including many tornadoes. This feature coincides with the U.S.
launch of their latest book, "Under the Whirlwind." Whether you are a
professional meteorologist of a storm chaser, an interested bystander or an
emergency response worker, you will find much to intrique and inform you in
the Verkaiks' colorful and entertaining presentation!

SUNDAY, 5 APRIL 1988

8:00-8:05 am. Announcements

8:05-8:15 Morning weather briefing by Weather Central Inc.

8:15-8:35 Dual Polarization of the WSR-88D. William Conway, NOAA/NSSL,
Norman, OK.

8:35-9:05 New Instability Nomenclature used by the Storm Prediction Center
(and how to interpret it!) Robert Johns, Storm Prediction Center,
Norman, OK.

9:05-10:05 Featured Speaker: Steve Weygandt, Center for Analysis and
Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK.
Thunderstorm-Scale Numerical Prediction at CAPS: Current Capabilities and
Future Prospects.

10:05-10:15 Vendor Presentation: Tim Vasquez, Weather Graphics Technologies

10:15-10:35 Coffee and Pastries

10:35-10:45 Vendor presentation: Freese-Notis, Inc.

10:45-11:00 Synoptic Climatology of Significant Tornado Events in Iowa.
Mike Tannura, Meteorology Student, Iowa State University

11:00-12:00 Severe Storm Forecasting Exercise for media, NWS and storm
spotters. Karl Jungbluth, Science Operations Officer, National Weather
Service, Des Moines, IA.

12:00 pm. End of conference

Hotel information:
Holiday Inn Des Moines Airport
6111 Fleur Drive
Des Moines, IA 50321
1-800-248-4013
Free airport shuttle service available. Call upon arriving.
Mention Severe Storms Conference to receive special room rate of $65.00
per room single or double.

Conference Registration Fees:
Due before March 15, 1998:

$85.00
$50.00 Students or Saturday sessions only.
$250.00 Vendors (8' x 10' Display Space and draped table)

Late breaking conference details at www.ecity.net/~iowanwa/ or contact:
john...@ecity.net (John McLaughlin) 1-515-247-8888
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