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BROADCASTER WORKSHOP
| 0830 AM | Welcoming
Remarks. NWA President, David I.
Knapp, U. S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM. |
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| 0835 AM | Opening
Remarks. NWA Broadcast Meteorology
Committee Chair, Mike Goldberg, WTVR-TV, Richmond, VA., and Broadcaster
Workshop
Program Chair, Bryan Karrick, (NWA Councilor) KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA (bkarrick@hearst.com) |
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| 0845 AM | Welcome to
Cleveland! Betsy Kling, (NWA Councilor, Public Relations Chair and Local Arrangements Committee Chair) Broadcast Meteorologist for WKYC-TV, Cleveland, OH
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| 0900 AM | Using COMET
Modules
as Educational and
Continuing Education Opportunities. Elizabeth Page, (NWA Secretary) UCAR/COMET, Greensboro, NC.
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| 0915 AM | Watershed
Education for Weather Broadcasters. Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO.
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| 0930 AM | The
Functionality
of a New Radar Software
Package: GRLevel2 Analyst Edition. Ted Keller, KOLR/KSFX-TV, Ceaseless Wind LLC, Springfield, MO.
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| 0945 AM | The First
Operational
Polarimetric Doppler
Radar for Television Use. James-Paul Dice, WHNT-TV, Huntsville, AL.
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| 1000 AM | Coffee Break in Ballrooms A & B |
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| 1030 AM | Performance of
New
Tornado Detection
Algorithms: The 18 August 2005 Stoughton, Wisconsin Tornado. Mike Beles, Weather Central, Inc., Madison, WI.
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| 1045 AM | Cyclone
Saturday: A Review of the Teamwork and
Technology during the 12 November 2005 Iowa Tornadoes. John McLaughlin, (NWA Past-president) KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA and Daryl Herzmann, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
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| 1100 AM | The Use of
Mesoscale Analysis. Daniel McCarthy, (NWA Councilor and Annual Awards Committee Chair) NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK.
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| 1200 NOON | Lunch on your own; Exhibits open in Ballrooms A
& B |
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| 0130 PM | Introduction
to
Weather Radar Interpretation:
Some Useful Insights for the TV Meteorologist. Richard Kane, NOAA/NWS Pittsburgh, PA.
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| 0230 PM | Walk In My
Shoes:
Unique Simulation Efforts at
the 2006 National Severe Weather Workshop. Elizabeth Quoetone, (NWA Commissioner of Committees) NOAA/NWS/WDTB Norman, OK. Daphne LaDue and Paul Schlatter, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK, John McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA and Dave Freeman, KSNW-TV, Wichita, KS.
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| 0245 PM | A
Public-Private
Partnership to Saturate Two
Television Markets with NOAA Weather Radio. Wayne Hart, WEHT-TV, Evansville, IN, John McLaughlin, (NWA Past-president) KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA, Rick Shanklin, NOAA/NWS Paducah, KY and Jeff Johnson, NOAA/NWS Des Moines, IA.
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| 0300 PM | Refreshment Break sponsored by WeatherBug
(www.weatherbug.com) and Exhibits
Open in Ballrooms A & B |
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| 0330 PM | From Watching
to
Watching Out: Public Reaction
to Severe Weather Information. Jim Rasor & Samantha Davies, WSIL-TV, Carterville, IL.
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| 0345 PM | FLASH:
Strengthening Homes and Safeguarding
Families through Partnerships. Leslie Chapman-Henderson, President/CEO of Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH, Inc.), Tallahassee, FL. |
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| 0410 PM | Storm-based
Warnings: Changes to NWS Warnings
for the Digital Age. John Ferree, NOAA/NWS/Severe Storm Service Leader, Norman, OK and Dave Freeman, Chief Meteorologist, KSNW-TV, Wichita, KS.
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| 0430 PM | SHARK-BAIT: How To Avoid Major Mistakes in
Employment Contract Negotiations. Avery Friedman, Friedman Associates, Cleveland, OH.
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| 0450 PM | NWA Seal Recertification Update. Bryan Karrick, NWA Seal of Approval Recertification Chair and Mike Goldberg, Broadcast Meteorology Committee Chair
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| 0500 PM | Dinner on your own; Exhibits open in
Ballrooms A & B until 6:00 PM. |
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| 0700 PM | TAPE SWAP
2006 in Ballroom C. Mike Goldberg, Broadcast Meteorology Committee
chair, WTVR-TV, Richmond VA and Larry Rice, Broadcast Seal Committee
chair, KOB-TV, Albuquerque, NM. Refreshments will be served after 8:00
PM thanks to the generosity of Baron Services, Inc. (www.baronservices.com).
[Attendees: please submit your VHS tapes to the NWA Registration and
Information Desk volunteers by 5:00 PM & insure your name, address,
and station are listed on the tape.] |
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| 1030 PM | NWA Annual Meeting scheduled activities close
for the day. |
| 0715 AM | NWA Registration/Information Desk opens at the
InterContinental Hotel on the 2nd floor in the foyer of the Ballroom. |
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| 0800 AM | Welcoming
Remarks: NWA President, David I. Knapp, U. S. Army Research Laboratory,
White Sands Missile Range, NM, Theresa Rossi, NWA Annual Meeting
Program Committee Chair, (NWA Past-president) NOAA/NWS Pittsburgh, PA
and Michael Vescio, (NWA Vice President) NOAA/NWS Pendleton, OR. |
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| 0815 AM | Keynote
Address. Van
Wert Tornado - A Community
Prepared. Rick McCoy, Director Emergency Management Agency, Van Wert County, OH.
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| 0845 AM | Keynote
Address.
NOAA National Weather Service
Future in the Digital Age. Brigadier General USAF (Ret.) David L. Johnson, NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and Director, National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD.
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| 0915 AM | Keynote
Address. NOAA/NWS Initiative to Improve
Weather, Water, and Climate Services. Dean P. Gulezian, Director National Weather Service Eastern Region, Bohemia, NY.
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| 0945 AM | NWA Announcements. NWA President, David I. Knapp |
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| 1000 AM | Coffee Break; Exhibits open in Ballrooms A &
B |
SESSION: CUSTOMER SERVICE
Session Chair: Elizabeth Quoetone, (NWA Commissioner of Committees)
NOAA/NWS/WDTB Norman, OK.
| 1030 AM | The
Nation's Weather Enterprise: Short Course
on the Public/Private Partnership. John Toohey-Morales, CCM, National Council of Industrial Meteorologists (NCIM), NBC Telemundo, Miami, FL.
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| 1045 AM | Improving
Partnerships Through Training: An
Interactive Web-supported Training Exercise for Decision-makers. Jason Johnson, Jonathan Brazzell, Derek Deroche, Scott Overpeck, Seth Nagle, Julie States, Hector Guerrero (NWA Councilor) and Amy McCullough, NOAA/NWS San Angelo, TX.
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| 1100 AM | Instant
Messaging, Then and Now. Faith Borden and Darone Jones, NOAA/NWS Birmingham, AL and Daryl Herzmann, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
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| 1115 AM | Impact
Weather Communications. Mark Fox and Tom Bradshaw, NOAA/NWS Southern Region Headquarters, Fort Worth, TX.
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| 1130 AM | Lunch on Your Own; Exhibits open in Ballrooms A
& B |
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| 0100 PM | The
WEBCEM- An Automated Dissemination Method
for Issuing Non-Weather Related Hazardous Warnings via the Web. Brian C. Carcione, Timothy W. Troutman, John Mike Coyne and Jason E. Burks, NOAA/NWS Huntsville, AL.
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| 0115 PM | Watching
Paint Weather: An Overview of How We
Use Different Climates and Weather Factors to Ensure Paint Will Last. Guy Wilson, Ph.D., Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, OH.
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| 0130 PM | A
Public-Private Partnership to Saturate Two
Television Markets with NOAA Weather Radio. John McLaughlin, (NWA Past-president) KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA, Wayne Hart, WEHT-TV, Evansville, IN, Rick Shanklin, NOAA/NWS Paducah, KY and Jeff Johnson, NOAA/NWS Des Moines, IA.
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| 0145 PM | Applied Meteorology in the Mobile Marketplace. Bob Baron and Rob Doornbos, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL.
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SESSION: WINTER WEATHER
Session Chair: Peter Manousos, NOAA/NWS Camp Springs, MD.
| 0200 PM | On the
Co-existence of Thundersnow and Heavy
Snowfall. Christina Crowe, Patrick Market (NWA Councilor), Brian Pettegrew, and Chris Melick, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
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| 0215 PM | Lake Effect
Thunder Snows Over the Eastern
Great Lakes. Robert Hamilton, NOAA/NWS Buffalo, NY and Scott Steiger, Ph.D. SUNY Oswego, NY.
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| 0230 PM | Simulation of
Lake Effect Snow Using the
Workstation WRF Model. Daniel Leins and Robert LaPlante, NOAA/NWS Cleveland, OH.
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| 0245 PM | Correlations
between Observed Snowfall and NAM
Forecast Parameters. Michael Evans and Michael L. Jurewicz Sr., NOAA/NWS Binghamton, NY.
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| 0300 PM | The Great Ohio
Blizzard of 1978: Storm Review
and Assessment of Societal Impacts. Kirk A. Lombardy, NOAA/NWS Cleveland, OH and Dr. Thomas W. Schmidlin, Kent State University, Kent, OH.
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| 0315 PM | The Blizzard
of 2006 in the Northeast: A look
inside the Operations of a National Weather Service Forecast Office. Patrick Maloit and Jeffrey Tongue, NOAA/NWS Upton, NY.
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| 0330 PM | Refreshment Break; Exhibits open in
Ballrooms A & B |
SESSION: PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING
Session Chair: Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS Pittsburgh, PA.
| 0400 PM | Model
JUMPINESS and the Need for Ensembles. Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWS State College, PA and Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY.
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| 0415 PM | Using Ensemble
Probability Forecasts and High
Resolution Models To Identify Severe Weather Threats. Josh Korotky, NOAA/NWS Pittsburgh, PA and Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWS State College, PA.
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| 0430 PM | Expressing
Uncertainty in Both Hazardous and
Routine Weather Forecasts at a NWS Forecast Office. Jeffrey P. Craven, (NWA Councilor and Co-chair Weather Analysis & Forecasting Committee) NOAA/NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI.
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| 0445 PM | The
Short-Range Ensemble Forecast: Applying
Uncertainty and Probabilistic Forecasts of Winter Storms. Matthew Steinbugl, NOAA/NWS Des Moines, IA and Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWS State College, PA.
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| 0500 PM | Using Ensemble
Model Output Statistics to
Improve 12-Hour Probability of Precipitation Forecasts. John P. Gagan, NOAA/NWS Springfield, MO and Chad Entremont, NOAA/NWS Jackson, MS.
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| 0515 PM | Updating
Thunderstorm Probability Forecast
Guidance in Support of Gridded Model Output Statistics. Kathryn Gilbert, NOAA/NWS Silver Spring, MD.
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| 0530 PM | Session ends; Administrative announcements
Exhibits close; NWA Registration/Information desk closes |
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| 0600 PM | BOARD SHUTTLE BUSSES for ROCK and ROLL HALL of
FAME and MUSEUM. Thanks to Oregon Scientific, Inc., (www2.oregonscientific.com/)
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum have been reserved for Monday
evening for NWA Annual Meeting attendees and guests to tour the museum
and enjoy a reception. The Cleveland Convention and Visitors Bureau is
supplying the bus transportation and sponsoring the "look-live" video
reports broadcasters can send back to their station via the Internet. A
Cleveland company, Digital Newsreel, has perfected sending and
receiving broadcast quality video over the Internet. Broadcasters that
are interested in this opportunity should contact betsykling@wkyc.com to reserve a
"look-live" spot. |
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| 0900 PM | Busses will
return attendees to the InterContinental Hotel after 0900 PM.
Broadcaster Dinner will be at the House of Blues for those wishing to
attend. |
| 0730 AM | NWA Registration/Information Desk opens at the
InterContinental Hotel on the 2nd floor in the foyer of the Ballroom. |
| 0740 AM | Weather Briefing (Ballroom C) |
SESSION: SEVERE WEATHER I
Session Chair: Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWS State College, PA
| 0800 AM | Verification
of Particularly Dangerous
Situation (PDS) Watches. Joseph T. Schaefer, (NWA Past-president) NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC) Director, Norman, OK and Andrew R. Dean, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK.
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| 0815 AM | The Severe
Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE
2006). Travis Smith, Kiel Ortega, and Kevin Scharfenberg, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK.
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| 0830 AM | Changes in
F-Scale, Hail and Wind Reports. Daniel McCarthy and Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK.
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| 0845 AM | A Proposal for
a Threat Level Scale for
National Weather Service Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. Kelly G. Godsey, Robert C. Goree and Andrew I. Watson, NOAA/NWS Tallahassee, FL.
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| 0900 AM | SVRGIS:
Geographic Information System (GIS) Graphical Database of Tornado,
Large Hail, and Damaging Wind Reports in the United States (1950-2005). Bryan Smith, Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
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| 0915 AM | Cyclone
Saturday: A Review of the Teamwork and
Technology During the 12 November 2005 Iowa Tornadoes. John McLaughlin (NWA Past-president), KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA and Daryl Herzmann, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
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| 0930 AM | Performance of
the Experimental 4.5 km WRF-NMM
Model During Recent Severe Weather Outbreaks. Steven J. Weiss, (NWA Past-president) NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center (SPC), Norman, OK, John S. Kain NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Boulder, CO, David R. Bright , NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK. Matthew E. Pyle, Zavisa I. Janjic and Brad S. Ferrier, NOAA/NWS Environmental Modeling Center, Camp Springs, MD.
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| 0945 AM | The 11-13
March 2006 Mid-South Tornado Outbreak
- Why it Never Occurred. Dan Valle, NOAA/NWS Memphis, TN.
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| 1000 AM | Coffee Break; Exhibits open in Ballrooms A
& B |
SESSION: Special Tribute to the late Roderick A. Scofield, NWA Past-president Session Chairs: Kenneth F. Carey, (NWA Remote Sensing Committee Chair) Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA and Michael Eilts, Warning Decision Technologies Inc., Norman, OK.
| 1030 AM | Estimating
Rainfall from GOES Satellite Imagery
- The Early Years. Samuel K. Beckman, NOAA/NWS Kansas City, MO.
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| 1045 AM | A GOES-Eye
View of Rod Scofield's Legacy. Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD.
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| 1100 AM | Statewide
Monitoring of the Mesoscale
Environment: A Technical Update on the Oklahoma Mesonet. Ken Crawford (NWA Past-president) and Renee A. McPherson, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK.
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| 1115 AM | Cloud
Lightning From the National Lightning
Detection Network (NLDN). Ronald Holle, Nicholas Demetriades and Martin Murphy, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ.
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| 1130 AM | POSTER SESSION I [Lunch on your own; Exhibits
open in Ballrooms A & B] Posters will be available all afternoon. |
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SESSION: REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Session Chairs: Kenneth F. Carey, (NWA Remote Sensing Committee Chair)
Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA and Michael Eilts, Warning
Decision Technologies Inc., Norman, OK.
| 0130 PM | Current and
Future GOES Program Overview. Thomas Renkevens, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD, Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI and Tim Walsh, John Paquette and Brian Hughes, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD.
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| 0145 PM | Operational
Implications of the GOES-R. Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI, Thomas Renkevens NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD, James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS Silver Spring, MD and Mat M. Gunshor and Jun Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison/CIMSS, Madison, WI.
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| 0200 PM | Improved
Resolution and Consistency in the
Quest for Better Utilization of GOES Sounder Products. Gary S. Wade, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI, Scott Bachmeier, NOAA/NWS Madison, WI, James P. Nelson III and Sarah T. Bedka, University of Wisconsin-Madison/CIMSS, Madison, WI and Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI.
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| 0215 PM | RIDGE - Radar
Integrated Display with
Geospatial Elements. Planned Updates and Enhancements to the NWS New
Radar Webpage. Keith Stellman and Paul Kirkwood, NOAA/NWS Southern Region, Fort Worth, TX, Jason Burks, NOAA/NWS Huntsville, AL, Tim Brice, NOAA/NWS El Paso, TX. and Ken Pavelle, NOAA/NWS Silver Spring, MD.
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| 0230 PM | Dual-polarimetric
WSR-88D Radar Algorithms. Kevin A. Scharfenberg, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK.
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| 0245 PM | Status on the
Integration of the NSSL
Four-dimensional Stormcell Investigator (FSI) into AWIPS. Gregory J. Stumpf, NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) and University of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK, F. Thomas Filiaggi, NOAA/NWS Silver Spring, MD, Michael A. Magsig, NOAA/NWS/WDTB, Norman, OK, Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK and Stephan B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD.
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| 0300 PM | Site-Specific
Scanning Strategies for WSR-88Ds:
Planning for Field Tests. Rodger A. Brown, (NWA Publications Committee Co-chair) NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK and Randy M. Steadham, NOAA/NWS Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK.
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| 0315 PM | Refreshment Break; Exhibits open in
Ballrooms A & B and POSTER SESSION I continues |
SESSION: WEATHER ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING
Session Chair: Jeffrey P. Craven, (NWA Councilor and Co-chair of the
Weather Analysis and Forecasting Committee) NOAA/NWS
Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI.
| 0345 PM | Model
Flip-Flops and Forecast Opportunities. Bernard N. Meisner, NOAA/NWS Southern Region, Fort Worth, TX.
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| 0400 PM | The Enhanced
Short-Term Forecast Program at WFO
Charleston WV. Alan Rezek and Jeffrey Hovis, NOAA/NWS Charleston, WV.
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| 0415 PM | Advancements
in Surface Transportation Weather
Practices and Technologies. Paul Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC and Andrew Stern, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA.
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| 0430 PM | A
Fingerprinting Technique for Major Weather
Events. Benjamin V. Root and Paul G. Knight, Penn State University, University Park, PA, Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWS State College, PA, Jeremy Ross, ZedX Inc., Bellefonte, PA and Steven Greybush, Penn State University, University Park, PA.
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| 0445 PM | High-Resolution
Analysis Products to Support
Severe Weather and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Threat Assessments over
Florida. Jonathan Case, ENSCO Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL and Scott Spratt and David Sharp, NOAA/NWS Melbourne, FL.
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| 0500 PM | An Operational
Configuration of the ARPS Data
Analysis System to Initialize WRF in the NWS Environmental Modeling
System. Jonathan Case, ENSCO Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL, Peter Blottman, NOAA/NWS Melbourne, FL, Timothy Oram (NWA IT Committee Chair) and Brian Hoeth, NOAA/NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group (SMG) Johnson Space Center, TX.
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| 0515 PM | Easy
Deployment of the WRF Model with Parallel
Computing Using Non-Dedicated PCs. Braden Ward and Shing Yoh, Kean University, Union, NJ.
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| 0530 PM | Session ends; Administrative announcements.
Exhibits tear down. |
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| 0600 PM | NWA Registration/Information desk closes. |
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| 0630 PM | NWA Council and Committee Chairs dinner and
business meeting (Room 207) |
| 0730 AM | NWA Registration/Information Desk opens at the
InterContinental Hotel on the 2nd floor in the foyer of the Ballroom. |
| 0740 AM | Weather Briefing (Ballroom C) |
SESSION: FLASH FLOOD/HYDROLOGY
Session Chair: Bernard N. Meisner, NOAA/NWS Southern Region, Fort
Worth, TX.
| 0800 AM | Invited
Presentation - Hydrometeorological
Training: What Makes a Flood a Flash Flood. Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO and Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO.
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| 0830 AM | Flash Flood
Hot Spot Climatology: An Essential
Tool for the Flash Flood Warning Process. Michael Moneypenny, NOAA/NWS Raleigh, NC and Jamie Wirth, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
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| 0845 AM | Observing the
Flood Threat from Hurricane Ivan
with the Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction (FFMP) Program. Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS Pittsburgh, PA.
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| 0900 AM | Revisiting
Upper Tropospheric Lows and Their Interaction with the North American
Monsoon: What is Next in Hypothesis Formulation and Testing. Erik Pytlak, NOAA/NWS Tucson, AZ.
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| 0915 AM | Dual-polarimetric
radar in Operational
Forecasting: An Overview. Kevin A. Scharfenberg, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK.
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| 0930 AM | A Subtle
Heavy Rainfall Signature (SHARS) Event in Southeast Arizona:
Ramifications of a Major Flash Flooding in an Urbanized Desert
Environment. Michael Schaffner and Erik Pytlak, NOAA/NWS Tucson, AZ
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| 0945 AM | Coffee Break |
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| 1015 AM | An Update on
Satellite Derived Tropical
Rainfall Potential (TRaP) and Blended Total Precipitable Water Products. Sheldon J. Kusselson, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD and Dr. Stanley Kidder, CIRA/Colorado State University, Denver, CO.
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| 1030 AM | An Operational
Forecast Office Perspective of
the National Weather Service Hydrologic Distributed Modeling System
(HDMS). Diane Cooper, NOAA/NWS ABRFC, Tulsa, OK.
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| 1045 AM | Probabilistic
Forecasts - Baseline Products for
Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services. David B. Reed, NOAA/NWS LMRFC Slidell, LA.
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| 1100 AM | Invited
Presentation - Dr. Richard W. Spinrad, NOAA Assistant Administrator for
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Research, Silver Spring, MD.
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| 1130 AM | NWA Annual
Awards Luncheon (Ballrooms A & B) includes a tribute to Rod
Scofield and Jim Moore, NWA Past-presidents who died in 2006. |
SESSION: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Session Chair: Dr. Gregory P. Byrd, (NWA Councilor) UCAR/COMET,
Boulder, CO.
| 0200 PM | Walk in My
Shoes: Unique Simulation Efforts at
the 2006 National Severe Weather Workshop. Elizabeth Quoetone (NWA Commissioner of Committees) NOAA/NWS/WDTB Norman, OK, Daphne LaDue and Paul Schlatter, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK, John McLaughlin (NWA Past-president), KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA and Dave Freeman, KSNW-TV, Wichita, KS.
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| 0215 PM | KU-OUR-METPACT
Year II: Growth. Paul J. Croft (NWA Past-president), Kean University, Union, NJ.
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SESSION: CLIMATOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Session Chair: Dr. Gregory P. Byrd, (NWA Councilor) UCAR/COMET,
Boulder, CO.
| 0230 PM | Discovery of
the Primary Teleconnection
Mechanism (PTM) - the Trigger
Mechanism that Controls Recurring Cycles of the El Nino, Hurrican
Landfalls and other Weather/Climate Cycles. David Dilley, Global Weather Oscillations, Inc., Ocala, FL.
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| 0245 PM | The
Interannual and Interdecadal Variability in
Hurricane Activity in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans. Tamera K. Latham, Trenton H. Magill, Anthony R. Lupo, Joseph V. Clark and Patrick S. Market (NWA Councilor), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
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| 0300 PM | An Informal
Look at Some Tornado Related
Statistical Trends. Alan E. Gerard, (NWA President-elect and Co-chair of Publications Committee) NOAA/NWS Jackson, MS.
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| 0315 PM | Trying to
Clear up a Foggy Forecast. Thomas L. Salem Jr., NOAA/NWS Glasgow, MT.
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| 0330 PM | Refreshment Break and POSTER
SESSION II |
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| 0530 PM | NWA Registration/Information desk closes. |
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| 0600 PM | NWA Council dinner and business meeting (Room
207) |
| 0730 AM | NWA Registration/Information Desk opens at the
InterContinental Hotel on the 2nd floor in the foyer of the Ballroom. |
| 0740 AM | Weather Briefing (Ballrooms A & B) |
SESSION: WEATHER IMPACT ON AVIATION
Session Chair: Ron W. Przybylinski, NOAA/NWS Saint Louis, MO.
| 0800 AM | Invited
Presentation - The Air Force Reserve
Hurricane Hunters' Missions and the 2005-2006 Tropical Cyclone Season. Major John Gordon, United States Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters, Keesler AFB, MS.
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| 0830 AM | Generation and
Application of Gridded Aviation
Forecast Parameters in GFE and AvnFPS. Chris Leonardi, NOAA/NWS Charleston, WV.
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| 0845 AM | The Fog Remote
Sensing and Modeling (FRAM)
Field Project and Preliminary Results. Ismail Gultepe, Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada.
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| 0900 AM | Cold Season
Fog in the Northern Mid-Atlantic
States: Spatial Characteristics and Behaviors by Synoptic Weather
Regimes. Paul J. Croft (NWA Past-president) and Aaron N. Burton, Kean University, Union, NJ.
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| 0915 AM | Aircraft Icing
Risk and Maximum Icing Altitude
Estimates from GOES: Verification of the Experimental Product. Gary P. Ellrod, NOAA/NESDIS (retired), Granby, CT and Andrew Bailey, Raytheon ITSS, Landover, MD.
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| 0930 AM | Using a
Mesoscale Model to Identify Convective Initiation in an Air Route
Traffic Control Center/Center Weather Service Unit (ARTCC/CWSU)
Environment. Warren Snyder, NOAA/NWS Albany, NY, Mark R. McKinley, NOAA/NWS/CWSU Oberlin, OH and Allison R. Vegh, SUNY Brockport, NY.
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| 0945 AM | Coffee Break |
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| 1015 AM | A Weather
Decision Aid for Unmanned Aircraft
Missions. David Knapp (NWA President), Edward Measure, David Sauter and Terry Jameson, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM.
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| 1030 AM | Interactive
Weather Visualization Tools For the
U.S. Armed Forces. R. Bruce Telfeyan and Daniel M. Rozema, U.S. Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE.
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| 1045 AM | Weather Theory
for Pilots. Terry T. Lankford, FAA (retired), Murphys, CA
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SESSION: SEVERE WEATHER II
Session Chair: Josh Korotky, NOAA/NWS Pittsburgh, PA.
| 1100 AM | Invited
Presentation - A Review of Significant
Weather Events in 2006. Gregory Carbin, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK.
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| 1130 AM | Lunch on Your Own |
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| 1230 PM | Regional
Variations in Sounding Derived
Significant Severe Weather Parameters. Jeffrey P. Craven, (NWA Councilor and Co-chair Weather Analysis & Forecasting Committee) NOAA/NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI.
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| 1245 PM | Sounding
Analog Retrieval System (SARS). Ryan Jewell, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK.
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| 0100 PM | Using Flow
Regime Lightning and Sounding Climatologies to Initialize Gridded
Lightning Threat Forecasts for East-Central Florida. Winifred Lambert and David Short, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL and Matthew Volkmer, David Sharp and Scott Spratt, NOAA/NWS Melbourne, FL.
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| 0115 PM | Exploring a
New Approach to Improving Severe
Weather Warning Lead Times Using GFE. Andy Roche, NOAA/NWS Charleston, WV.
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| 0130 PM | Effects of
Cell Mergers Into the Inflow Flank
of Supercells on Tornadogenesis. Mark R. Jarvis and Theodore W. Funk, NOAA/NWS Louisville, KY.
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| 0145 PM | Hurricane Rita
Tornado Outbreak. Dan Byrd and
Greg Garrett, NOAA/NWS Jackson, MS.
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| 0200 PM | A Radar
Perspective of the Early Morning 6
November 2005 Tornadoes. Patrick J. Spoden, NOAA/NWS Paducah, KY, Ron Przybylinski, NOAA/NWS Saint Louis, MO, and Christine Wielgos and Rick Shanklin, NOAA/NWS Paducah, KY.
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| 0215 PM | Analysis of
the Tornado Damage Track from the
06 November Evansville Indiana Tornado: Observations and Perspectives. Ron W. Przybylinski, NOAA/NWS Saint Louis, MO, and Rick Shanklin, Patrick J. Spoden and Christine Wielgos, NOAA/NWS Paducah, KY.
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| 0230 PM | A Case Study
of the April 2, 2006 Killer
Mid-South Tornado Outbreak. Jonathan L. Howell and Jason F. Beaman, NOAA/NWS Memphis, TN.
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| 0245 PM | The Great
Lakes Cyclone Windstorm of 12-13
November 2003: A Synoptic-Dynamic Case Study. John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
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| 0300 PM | A Case Study
of the 18 April 2006 Supercell in
Livingston County, Missouri. Jose Miranda and George Limpert, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO.
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| 0315 PM | An Overview of
the 12-13 March 2006 Severe
Weather Outbreak Over the Southwest Missouri Ozarks. John P. Gagan and Gino Izzi, NOAA/NWS Springfield, MO.
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| 0330 PM | A Synoptic and
Meso-scale Comparison of Recent
Record Setting Tornado Events in Wisconsin. Marc B. Kavinsky, NOAA/NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI.
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| 0345 PM | Closing Remarks. David I. Knapp, NWA President, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM and Alan E. Gerard, NWA President-elect, NOAA/NWS Jackson, MS. |
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| 0400 PM | NWA 31st Annual Meeting Adjourns. |