To all presenters, session chairs, Program Committee members, students from
Saint Louis University and the University of Missouri-Columbia that helped at
the registration desk and with the AV equipment, exhibitors/sponsors - and all
attendees -
THANK YOU VERY MUCH for making the 30th Annual Meeting, the best
annual meeting ever. We recorded over 450 attendees topping the 25th
Anniversary Meeting in 2000. - Steve Weiss, NWA President
The Final Agenda is posted here for reference and the Presentation abstracts are available here (.pdf).
Fourth Annual Golf Classic: Betsy Kling is organizing the
fourth annual NWA golf outing for the enjoyment of members and guests and to
raise funds for scholarships as she did so successfully the last three years.
The Golf Outing with tee times beginning after lunch will be held at the
Stonewolf Golf Club (http://www.stonewolfgolf.com/home.htm)
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Exhibit booths will be open daily Sunday through Tuesday evening for viewing. Exhibit information is available from the NWA office at (434) 296-9966 or NatWeaAsoc@aol.com.
Exhibits are available from: AccuWeather, Inc.; Advanced Designs Corp. (ADC); Baron Services; Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET); ENSCO, Inc.; NBC Universal and Weather Plus; Midland Radio Corp.; Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC); StratusStation, Inc.; US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - AIRNOW; WeatherBug Media Services; Weather Central, Inc.; Weather Metrics, Inc.; and Weather Services International (WSI) Corp. Thanks to all exhibitors for supporting this annual meeting and the scholarship fund. Thanks also to other NWA corporate members such as Oregon Scientific, Inc., and Vaisala Inc., who couldn't attend, but contributed funds and golf prizes for the scholarship fund.
0730 AM NWA Registration and Information Desk
opens at the Adam’s
BROADCASTER WORKSHOP – (Promenade Ballroom D, E, and F) Presentations and workshops as shown below are for the continuing education of Television and Radio Weather Broadcasters and those in related fields, but all individuals interested are most welcome to register, attend and participate.
0830 AM Welcoming Remarks. NWA President Steven J. Weiss, Science and Operations Officer at the NOAA/NWS/NCEP Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK and Broadcaster Workshop Program Chair, Bryan Karrick of KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA (bkarrick@hearst.com)
0835
AM Opening Remarks. NWA
Broadcast Meteorology Committee Chair, Rich Apuzzo, WXIX-TV,
0840
AM The Potential of High
Performance, Regional Total Lightning Networks in Broadcast Meteorology. Nicholas W.S. Demetriades, Vaisala Inc., Tucson, AZ and Jean-Yves Lojou,
Meyreuil, France.
0855 AM Educating
Elementary School Children Can Change Lightning Safety Worldwide. Michael P. Utley, Struckbylightning.org,
Yarmouth, MA, Mary Ann Cooper, MD., University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, and Ronald L. Holle, Vaisala Inc., Tucson, AZ.
0910 AM Everyone
Can Save Lives. Mary Ann Cooper,
MD.,
0925 AM I
Survived Lightning Video Presentation & Panel Discussion. Michael
P. Utley, Struckbylightning.org,
Yarmouth, MA, Mary Ann Cooper, MD., University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, and Ronald L. Holle, Vaisala Inc., Tucson, AZ.
1010 AM Coffee Break; Exhibits Open
1040 AM Saint Louis Weather. Cindy Preszler, Chief Meteorologist at KSDK NewsChannel 5, Saint Louis, MO.
1055
AM The Presentation of
Precipitation Information in Television Broadcasts: What is Typical? Thomas
E. Hagen, Justin M. Glisan, Anthony R. Lupo, and Patrick Guinan,
Department of Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Science, University of
Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
1110 AM
1125 AM Hurricane
Hype and Katrina Lessons. Alan Sealls, Chief Meteorologist, WKRG-TV,
1200 NOON Lunch offered in exhibit area; Vendor presentations.
0130
PM More Lessons – Before, During,
and After Katrina. Brad Panovich,
WCNC-TV Charlotte, NC – deployed to
0145 PM Severe Weather Workshop. Daniel W. McCarthy, (NWA Councilor), NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK.
0245
PM The Great One-Inch Diameter Hail
Debate. Daniel W. McCarthy and Joseph T. Schaefer (NWA Past-President ’98), NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Storm
Prediction Center,
0300 PM Refreshment Break; Exhibits Open
0330
PM Have NBC’s Weather Plus
Channels Changed the Broadcast Weather Environment? Kenneth Reeves, Dr.
R. Lee Rainey, Jim Candor and Michael Steinberg,
AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA.
0345 PM Why Can=t We All Get Along? A New Template for Public-Private Cooperation. John B. McLaughlin, (NWA Past-President ’02), Chief Meteorologist, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA, Daryl Herzmann, Iowa State University, Ames, IA and Brad Small, NOAA/NWS Forecast Office, Des Moines, IA.
0400 PM Situational Awareness during the 30 May 2004
IN.
0415 PM Seal
Procedures/Recertification Q & A. Bryan Karrick (Broadcast Seal
Recertification Chair), KCCI-TV,
Committee Chair), WXIX-TV, Cincinnati, OH.
0430 PM Video
and discussion “Tornado Alley: Back Home in
0530 PM Dinner on your own; Exhibits close.
0700
PM ANNUAL TAPE SWAP 2005 begins.
Moderators: Rich Apuzzo (NWA Broadcast Meteorology Committee Chair),
WXIX-TV,
[Attendees: please submit your tapes to the NWA Registration and Information Desk volunteers by 5:00 PM & insure your name, address, and Station or University are listed on the tape.]
1100 PM NWA Annual Meeting scheduled activities close for the day.
Monday, 17 October 2005 - Annual Meeting General
Sessions (held in the Promenade Ballroom
D, E and F unless otherwise specified)
0700 AM NWA Registration and Information Desk
open in the Adam’s
0800 AM Welcoming Remarks. NWA President, Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/NWS/NCEP Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; Program Co-Chairs: Dr. James T. Moore (NWA Past-President ‘99) and Dr. Chuck Graves, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO; and, Kent Ehrhardt, Chief Meteorologist KMOV-TV, Saint Louis, MO.
0815
AM Keynote Address. Dennis H. McCarthy, Director, NOAA/NWS
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Silver Spring, MD.
0845 AM Keynote Address. Brigadier General USAF (Ret.) David. L. Johnson, NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and Director, National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD.
SESSION: WINTER WEATHER
Session Chair: Bernard N. Meisner, NOAA/NWS/Southern Region Headquarters, Fort Worth, TX.
0915 AM Forecasting
Frontal Precipitation Bands in an Operational Environment. Philip N. Schumacher, NOAA/NWSFO, Sioux
Falls, SD.
0930 AM The
Role of Intense Frontogenetical Forcing and Elevated
Convective Instability in Producing the Record 22-23 December 2004
Snowstorm in South-Central Indiana. Theodore Funk, NOAA/NWSFO, Louisville, KY.
0945 AM A Case
Study of the
Anthony Lupo, and Patrick Market,
1000
AM Coffee Break; Exhibits
Open
1030 AM Airstream Analysis Conducive to Production of Heavy
Banded Snowfall: A Numerical Simulation of the 26-27 November 2001 Snowstorm. Sam Ng,
Metropolitan State
College of Denver, Denver, CO, and James T. Moore (NWA
Past-President ’99) and Charles E. Graves, Saint Louis University, Saint
Louis, MO.
1045 AM
Improved WSR-88D Detection of Shallow Lake-effect Snowstorms Over Lake
Ontario: Simulations of Lowered Elevation Angles.
Rodger A. Brown,
NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), Thomas A. Niziol,
NOAA/NWSFO, Buffalo, NY, and Vincent T.
Wood, NOAA/NSSL,
Norman, OK.
1100 AM What
Idiot is Wasting My Storm-Chasing Time Yapping About a Winter Storm? The New Year’s Day 2005 Thundersleet
Storm
in
1115 AM A
Comparison of the Mesoscale Environments and Reflectivity Structures of Two
Winter Weather Events Across the Mid-
1130
AM Lunch on Your Own;
Exhibits Open
0100 PM FORUM & PANEL DISCUSSION -- Developing Effective Partnerships to Advance Operational Meteorology --
Moderator: George L. Frederick Jr. (NWA
Past-President ’86) Wind Profiler, Vaisala Measurement Systems,
Presenters/panelists:
Dr. Ken Crawford (NWA
Past-President ’88), NOAA/NWS Office of Science and Technology,
COOP Modernization:
NOAA’s Environmental Real-time Observation Network in
Robert G. Goldhammer, CEM, Region VII President, International
Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM),
An Operational User's Perspective:
Partnerships, Emergency Management, and Operational
Meteorology
John
B. McLaughlin (NWA Past-President ’02) chief meteorologist, KCCI-TV,
Why Can=t
We All Get Along? A New Template for Public-Private Cooperation
Dr. James T. Moore (NWA Past-President ’99) Professor,
Effective Partnerships to Infuse Research into Training for Operational Meteorology
Barry Lee Myers, Executive Vice
President & General Counsel, AccuWeather,
Inc.,
Dennis
H. McCarthy, Director, NOAA/NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather
Services,
Environmental Information
0230
PM Refreshment Break;
Exhibits Open
SESSION:
SEVERE WEATHER
Session Chairs: Ron Przybylinski, NOAA/NWS Forecast
Office, Saint Louis, MO and Scott M. Rochette, State University of New York at Brockport, NY
0300 PM Invited Presentation - Experience with
36-hour Explicit Convective Forecasts with the WRF-ARW Model. Morris L. Weisman,
NCAR Mesoscale and
Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO.
0330 PM A
Comparison of Tornado Statistics from Tornado Alley to Dixie Alley. Alan E. Gerard (NWA Councilor), NOAA/NWSFO
Jackson,
MS, John Gordon,
NOAA/NWSFO Louisville, KY, and John Gagan, NOAA/NWSFO
Jackson, MS.
0345 PM Comparisons
of Different WRF Configurations in a Severe Weather Forecasting Environment:
The 2005 SPC/NSSL Spring
Program.
Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/NWS/NCEP Storm Prediction Center (SPC), John Kain and Michael Baldwin, CIMMS/NSSL, David
Bright and Jason Levit, NOAA/NWS/SPC.
0400 PM Observations and Societal Impacts of
the 4 July 2004
0415 PM A Study
of Tornado Environment Parameters in Iowa: What Works, and Which Meso-Analysis
Output Can You Trust? Karl
Jungbluth,
NOAA/NWSFO Des Moines, IA.
0430 PM
Damaging Surface Wind Mechanisms and Non-Supercell Tornadoes with the 24
May 2004 Bow Echo Event over Northeast
Missouri and West-central Illinois.
Ron Przybylinski and Gary Schmocker,
NOAA/NWSFO Saint Louis, MO.
0445 PM The 1
June 2004 North Texas-Louisiana Derecho: A Case Study. Ted R. Best, Collin
County TX ARES Skywarn, Plano, TX, and Dan
Dixon, NOAA/NWSFO, Fort
Worth, TX
0500
PM Session ends; Administrative
announcements
0515 PM ICE BREAKER and POSTER SESSION I (time to view exhibits and posters, meet other attendees and enjoy refreshments)
POSTERS:
P1.1 The Interannual
Variability of Midwestern Temperatures as Related to the ENSO and PDO. Kevin Birk, Blake
Smith, Anthony R. Lupo, and Patrick E. Guinan, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
P1.2 Environmental
Conditions Associated with Cool Season Strong and Violent Tornadoes in the
Middle Mississippi Valley. Mark F. Britt and Fred H. Glass, NOAA/NWSFO Saint Louis,
MO.
P1.3 COHIX: Further
Studies of the Heat Island Associated with a Small Midwestern City Using SuomiNet Data. Patrick Buckley, Patrick S. Market, Anthony R. Lupo, and Neil Fox, University of Missouri-Columbia,
Columbia, MO.
P1.4 The Use of LDAR
II Total Lightning Data in Thunderstorm Nowcasting in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area. Nicholas W. S. Demetriades and Ronald L. Holle, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ.
P1.5 Statistical
Analysis of Historical Observations in Support of Temperature Forecasts at the
NWS Forecast Office in Jackson, MS. John P. Gagan, NOAA/NWSFO Jackson, MS.
P1.6 New Satellite
Data Tools For Precipitation Analyses and Forecasts. Sheldon J. Kusselson
and Jay Hanna, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD.
P1.7 The Impact of
the Missouri Ozarks on MCS Events. Nathan
M. McKinnon, David High, and Anthony R. Lupo,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
P1.8 The South
Atlantic Hurricane (“Catarina”) of March 2004. Mandi R. Reagan,
Ashley D. Franklin, Patrick S. Market, and Anthony R. Lupo,
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
P1.9 The Initiation
of Nocturnal Convection over the Eastern Plains. Philip N. Schumacher, NOAA/NWSFO
Jeffrey A. Chapman, NOAA/NWSFO
P1.10 The Bow Echo
Severe Wind Event of 6 May 2003 Across Eastern Missouri. James E. Sieveking
Jr. and Ron W. Przybylinski , NOAA/NWSFO Saint Louis, MO.
P1.11 Observations of
Cool Season QLCS Tornadoes in the Lower Ohio River Valley. Patrick J. Spoden,
Christine Wielgos, and Matthew T. Friedlein,
NOAA/NWSFO, Paducah, KY.
P1.12 The
P1.13 Building Your Audience and Revenue with Wireless
Technology. Kenneth
Reeves, Jim Candor, Douglas Yule and Michael Steinberg, AccuWeather, Inc.,
P1.14 The
P1.15
NOAA's Climate Database Modernization Program. Thomas F. Ross,
NOAA/NESDIS/National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC and Gary Petti, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD.
P1.16 National Weather Association 30th Anniversary. Ruth Aiken (NWA Secretary), NOAA/NWS Forecast
Office,
P1.17 Digital Weather Multicasting: New Opportunities for Viewers
and Weather Professionals. Jeff Thein, NBC Weather Plus, Secaucus, NJ.
Tuesday, 18 October 2005 - Annual Meeting General
Sessions (held in the Promenade Ballroom D, E and F unless
otherwise specified)
0700 AM NWA Registration and Information
Desk opens in the Adam’s
SESSION: WARM SEASON
WEATHER EVENTS
Session Chair: Fred
H. Glass, NOAA/NWS Forecast Office,
0800 AM Invited Presentation - Important
Physical Processes in Some Recent Flash Floods.
Matthew
Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO.
0830 AM Convective
Redevelopment Behind the Significant Ohio Valley Derecho of 13 July 2004. Chris Smallcomb and Mark Jarvis,
NOAA/NWSFO Louisville,
KY.
0845 AM
Meteorological and Warning Issues Associated with the Kansas Turnpike
Flash Flood of 30 August 2003. Jeffrey
D. Vitale and James T. Moore,
0900 AM A Case Study
of A Surprise Elevated Convection Event Over
Keast-Nachtrab,
and James T. Moore,
0915 AM Mini-Supercell Event of 23 October 2004
in the
0930 AM Hail of
a Spring in the Ark-La-Miss. Jeffrey
P. Craven (NWA Councilor), NOAA/NWSFO, Jackson, MS.
0945 AM Development
of a Severe Weather Forecast Decision Aid for East-Central Florida. William H. Bauman III,
Mark M. Wheeler, and David A. Short, ENSCO, Inc.,
1000 AM Coffee Break and Poster Session II (time to view exhibits and posters, meet other attendees and enjoy refreshments)
P2.1 Training
Forecasters to Effectively Use Smart Tools in the Digital Forecast Process. Samuel K. Beckman and Kevin L. Polston, NOAA/NWS Training Center, Kansas City, MO.
P2.2 A 25-Year
Climatology of the Supercell Composite Parameter. Greg Carbin, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK, Bryan
Smith, Ball State University, Muncie, IN,
Richard Thompson, and John Hart, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK.
P2.3 Preliminary
Synoptic Climatology of Cool Season Severe Weather (2000-2005) for the
Philadelphia National Weather Service County Warning Area and Vicinity. Paul J. Croft (NWA Past-President ’04) and
Michael G. Stroz, Kean University, Union, NJ.
P2.4 An
Investigation of Air Quality Index Characteristics and Behaviors for Southern
New Jersey During Spring 2004 as a Function of Synoptic Weather Patterns. Paul J. Croft and Belkys V. Melendez, Kean University, Union, NJ.
P2.5 Fog During the 2004-2005
Winter Season in the Northern Mid-Atlantic States: Spatial Characteristics and
Behaviors as a Function of Synoptic Weather Types. Paul J. Croft and Aaron N. Burton, Kean
University, Union, NJ.
P2.6 Problem Based
Learning: Observing The Earth. Paul J.
Croft, Kean University, Union, NJ.
P2.7 Problem Based
Learning: Meteorological Instrumentation. Paul J. Croft, Kean University, Union,
NJ.
P2.8 Undergraduates
Providing Weather Activities for Research and Development of Skills at Kean University
(UPWARDS at Kean!).
Paul J. Croft, Kean University, Union, NJ.
P2.9 Ultrasonic Snow
Depth Sensors - Can they help us measure snow? Nolan J. Doesken,
Colorado State University, and Wendy Brazenec and
Steven Fassnacht, Dept. of Forest, Rangeland and
Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
P2.10 A Case Study
of Supercell Thunderstorm Merger and Tornadogenesis. William Gilmore and Neil I. Fox, University
of Missouri – Columbia, Columbia, MO.
P2.11 The Historic
Missouri-Illinois High Precipitation Supercell of 10 April 2001. Fred H. Glass and Mark
F. Britt, NOAA/NWSFO Saint Louis, MO.
P2.12 The Role of
Coupled Jet Streaks in a Midwestern Heavy Snow Event. Chad M. Gravelle,
Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, Scott M. Rochette,
State University of New York at Brockport, NY, and Thomas A. Niziol, NOAA/NWSFO Buffalo, NY.
P2.13 Incorporating
Local Climatology into Aviation Forecasts.
Gino Izzi, NOAA/NWSFO Springfield, MO.
P2.14
Two Incredible Tornadic Supercells: Field Observations and Analysis
Reveals Distinctly Different Tornadic Modes. Ted Keller, KOLR/KSFX-TV,
P2.15 Tornadic High-Precipitation Supercell Cluster of 29 May
2004, Part II. Greg Koch, Suzanne M. Fortin, and Michael J.
Hudson NOAA/NWSFO
P2.16 The Creation and Utility of Historical Weather Posters. Andrea Lammers,
NOAA/NWSFO Louisville (Indiana University), and Sarah Ede,
NOAA/NWSFO Louisville (Western Kentucky
University).
P2.17 Integration of
SODAR Technology into Military Aerodrome Operations. David Law, U.S. Air Force, Medical Lake, WA.
P2.18 Analysis and
Forecasts of 300 hPa Divergence Associated with
Severe Convection Using ETA-212 and MM5 Model Data. Capt. Scott Lisko,
U.S. Air Force, Scott AFB, IL.
P2.19 Weather
Forecasting: Getting Order Out of Chaos? Anthony R. Lupo,
Patrick S. Market and Andy Kunz, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
P2.20 The Permian
Basin Haboob of 3 June 2003: An Analysis Using Modern
Remote Sensing and Photographic Observations. Seth Nagle, Jeffrey Cupo,
Todd Lindley, and Pat Vesper,
NOAA/NWSFO Midland, TX.
P2.21 On the
Frequency of Occluded Frontal Occurrence over North America. Zach Paul and Patrick S. Market, University
of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
P2.22 South Florida Seabreeze/Outflow Boundary Tornadoes. Russell Pfost,
Pablo Santos and Thomas Warner, NOAA/NWSFO Miami FL.
P2.23 The Effect of
a Gravel Base on the Temperature Profile in the Lowest 2 meters of the
Atmosphere. Justin D. Pucket
and Anthony R. Lupo, University of Missouri-Columbia,
Columbia,
MO.
P2.24 Timmy the
Twister. Dan Valle, Jim Belles, Scott Cordero, Jason Beaman and Jonathan Howell, NOAA/NWSFO
P2.25 The Severe
Weather Outbreak of 17-18 December 2002 over Central and Southern Missouri. Benjamin M. Roudenis,
Patrick I. Buckley, Neil I. Fox, and Anthony R. Lupo,
University
of Missouri-Columbia,
P2.26 The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commitment to Developing Minority
Meteorologists and Atmospheric Scientists. John L. Shoemake
(Staff), R. Suseela
Reddy (Faculty), Monesa Watts (Staff), Douglas Gavin (Student), and Darnell
Newton (Student),
P2.27 Decision
Support Page - NWS Weather Forecast Office, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Raymond Sondag, J.
Brad McGavock, and James Frederick, NOAA/NWSFO
P2.28 A Report on
the Multisensor Precipitation Estimator National
Operations Team.
Gregory J. Story, NOAA/NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center, Fort Worth, TX.
P2.29 Verification
of the GFS Guidance Ensemble Mean Over a Portion of the Northern Plains. Kyle Weisser, Jeff
Chapman, Phil Schumacher, NOAA/NWSFO Sioux Falls, SD.
P2.30 Mesoanalysis of Straight Line Wind Damage Event 29-30 July
2002: It Beats Coming Up with a Lecture. Robert A. Weisman, Saint Cloud State
University, Jeffrey M.
Buck, Bradly
E. Nelson, DTN, Inc., Todd A. Nelson and Matthew M. Kay, WeatherEye,
Inc.
P2.31 Comparison of
Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimates to Gage Precipitation Estimates for the
Midwest Region.
Nancy E. Westcott,
P2.32 Development of
a Comprehensive Database of Weather Observing Sites in Mississippi. Loren White, Albert Williams and Elizabeth Matlack, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS.
P2.33 An Overview of
Kodiak Launch Complex Operational Weather Support for the Missile Defense
Agency’s Integrated Flight Test 13 and 14 Launches. Gregory D. Wilke, Science
Applications International
Corporation (SAIC),
P2.34 WRF Implementation
by the Kean University Meteorology Program.
Shing Yoh, Paul J. Croft and Guillermo
Prescott, Kean University, Union, NJ.
P2.35 GOES-R
Baseline Instruments. James Gurka and
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS,
P2.36 The Creation and Impact of a New En-Route Graphical Weather
Forecast for Aviation: Graphical AIRMET.
Marc Singer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP Aviation Weather Center,
City, MO
P2.37
Enhancements to the Galileo Weather System. Kenneth Reeves, Ryan Ayres and Michael
Steinberg, AccuWeather, Inc.,
P2.38 An
Internet Site for Professional Meteorologists. Kenneth
Reeves, Jim Candor and Michael Steinberg, AccuWeather, Inc.,