AMS/NWA Chapter Meeting on Tuesday November 14th, 2023 at Noon at NCTCOG - Martin Lisius

[David McAnally]

Please set a reminder for Tuesday November 14 at 12PM (Noon) to join our monthly chapter meeting at the NCTCOG.

Our speaker will be Martin Lisius of Prairie Pictures and Tempest Tours. A bio excerpt is below. The title for Martin's talk is "Storm Chasing Gone Mad?". It will be a broad discussion about storm chasing that can include forecasting, logistics, myths, and photography.

Where: Council of Governments (main offices), Centerpoint II, 616 Six Flags Drive, Arlington, TX 76011, and via Zoom

The meeting will be on the first floor in the “Six Flags Conference Room”.  There is a map up on the lobby screen as they enter. For reference, the room is in the front left corner of our offices (in Blue below).  The red boxes are the entrance to the building.
We will also have the meeting online via Zoom (details below).

Bio: 

Martin Lisius, “The Storm Whisperer,” began tracking storms in the mid-1980’s. He is a cinematographer, producer, director and founder of Prairie Pictures and StormStock, a stock footage brand specializing in weather. In addition, Martin founded and chairs the Texas Severe Storms Association (TESSA), a national nonprofit dedicated to severe weather education and mitigation, and host to the National Storm Conference. Martin produced several television programs relating to severe weather including “Chasing the Wind” (1991) and “The Chasers of Tornado Alley” (1995). He co-produced “StormWatch” for the National Weather Service, which employs it nationwide as their official storm spotter training video. Martin worked as a technical advisor on the 1996 Warner Bros. blockbuster movie “Twister” and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show with the cast and crew. In 1998, he photographed the first-ever violent class tornado on 35 mm motion picture film at Spencer, South Dakota. In 1999, Martin teamed with Chevy Trucks to help create their “Storm Chaser” commercial for S-10 pickups. He produced a short film titled “Wakinyan,” selected to exhibit at several film festivals. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington. He authored “The Ultimate Severe Weather Safety Guide,” a book he wrote to mitigate the risks of potentially dangerous weather. Martin founded Tempest Tours in 2000 in order to provide storm chasing expeditions to the many people that were already asking him for them.

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David McAnally
Chapter Secretary

[David McAnally]

Reminder, our chapter meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday at 12PM (Noon).