Study Questions:

1.  What is the difference between an older weather radar and the newer doppler radar?

2.  What is the name of the new weather radar network now used in the United States?

3.  How long does it take a WSR-88D to make one scan of the atmosphere and update a picture?

4.  What does the word MESO mean on a Radar Summary Chart?

5.  What does the word HAIL mean on a Radar Summary Chart?

6.  What is the different types of satellite images?

7.  How do you identify thunderstorms on a visible image?

8.  How do you identify a thunderstorm on an IR image?

9.  How fast does the National Lightning map update?

10.  What is an LEWP?

11.  What are the hazards that Mr Parrish mentions he has seen in thunderstorms?

12.  How does Mr Parrish say NOAA crews avoid the worst weather?

13.  What hazards do the NOAA crews avoid?

14.  What is the most important lesson the NOAA crews receive about their radar?

15.  What is attenuation?

16.  What has happened that put NOAA crews in the worst hurricane experiences?

17.  What is the newest technology on aircraft radars?

18.  What is a lightning display?

19.  How can the FSS help you avoid thunderstorms on the ground and in the air?

20.  What is a HIWAS?  How will it help you?

21.  Do PIREPs help others?

22.  What is a CWA?  Who creates them?   What is the CWSU?

23.  When is there a meteorologist on staff at an ATC facility?  When ISN'T there a meteorologist on staff?

24.  What is the CCFP?

25.  What is the role of the Central Flow Command Center?