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NEWSLETTERNational Weather

AssociationNo. 10 – 8 August 2010

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NWA 35th Annual Meeting: Oct. 2 – 7, Tucson, Ariz.“Fire and Ice: Science and Society”

8:30 am Welcoming Remarks Steven M. Zubrick, NWA

President, NOAA/National Weather Service, Sterling, VA

8:35am Opening Remarks Nick Walker, NWA Broadcast Committee Chair, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

Mike Goldberg, Broadcast Workshop Chair, WSET-TV Lynchburg, VA

8:45am Welcome to Tucson Erin Christiansen, Local Program

Committee, KGUN-9 TV, Tucson, AZ

9:00am Hell Comes to Earth in 1859-The Legendary Santa Barbara Sundowner

Miles Muzio (Chair, Broadcast Seal of Approval Committee), KBAK-TV, Bakersfield, CA

9:15am The 11-12 February 2010 Snowstorm: The Importance of Considering Snow to Liquid Ratio During the Forecast Process

Hunter Coleman, Jeff Linton, Leonard Vaughn and Michael Cammarata, NOAA/National Weather Service, West Columbia, SC

9:30am Building Trust in Today’s Forecast for Response in Tomorrow’s Warning,

Samuel L. Lashley and J.A. Logsdon, NOAA/National Weather Service, Syracuse, IN; Andrea Lammers, NOAA/National Weather Service, Louisville, KY

Sunday, October 3 ~ Broadcasters’ Workshop Workshop Underwritten by Baron Services, Huntsville, AL

9:45am Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Better Address Societal Impacts Focus of NWS Warnings

Michael J. Hudson, NOAA/National Weather Service, Kansas City, MO

10:00am Refreshment Break

10:30am Workshop: You Can’t Make a Good Forecast Without a Good Analysis

H. Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, FL

11:30am A Review of the Active Winter Season of 2009-2010

Christopher Hedge, NOAA/National Weather Service/Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD

11:45am A Review of Significant Weather Events Occurring in 2010

Greg Carbin, NOAA/National Weather Service/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK

12:15pm Lunch on your own. Exhibits Open

1:45pm Workshop: Understanding Dual Pol Data - An Interactive Exercise

John Ferree, NOAA/National Weather Service, Norman, OK

3:15pm Refreshment Break

3:45pm Atmospheric Conditions Leading to the Production of the Vivian, SD Hailstone

Jay Trobec, KELO-TV, Sioux Falls, SD

4:00pm Lightning Safety in Buildings and Vehicles

Ronald L. Holle (NWA 2010 Local Program Committee), Holle Meteorology and Photography, Oro Valley, AZ

4:15pm COMET at 20: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

Greg Byrd and Wendy Schreiber-Abshire (NWA Councilor), UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO

4:30pm Broadcast Meteorology: More Than Forecasting the Weather

John Carroll, KREX-TV, Grand Junction, CO

4:45pm Staying Relevant in Today’s Newsroom

Don Schwenneker, WBBM-TV, Chicago, IL

5:00pm Broadcast Meteorologists’ Salary Survey Results

Mark Reynolds, WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN

5:15pm Announcements. Dinner on your own. Exhibits open.

7:00pm Broadcaster DVD Swap Nick Walker (Chair, Broadcast

Committee), The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; Miles Muzio (Chair, Broadcast Seal of Approval Committee), KBAK-TV, Bakersfield, CA

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Sunday, October 3 ~ 3rd Annual Students’ Workshop

University of Arizona Student Union, University of Arizona Campus

Monday, October 4 ~ Annual Meeting General Session

Students Please don’t forget to

bring a copy of your resume if you want to participate in

the resume one-on-few workshop!

12:00pm Welcoming Remarks Steven Zubrick, NWA President,

NOAA/National Weather Service, Sterling, VA

Steve Harned, NWA Executive Director, Raleigh, NC

Pat Market, NWA President-Elect, Chair of the NWA Nominating Committee and Chair of the 3rd Annual Student Session, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

12:15pm Leadership Skills for New Scientists

Glen Sampson, NOAA/National Weather Service, Tucson, AZ

12:45pm Preparing for that Outstanding Job Interview

John Ogren, NOAA/National Weather Service, Kansas City, MO

1:15pm Building your Competitive Resume and Cover Letter

Elise Schultz (NWA Student Councilor), University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

1:45pm Finding and Building a Mentor Relationship

Wendy Schreiber-Abshire (NWA Councilor), UCAR COMET, Boulder, CO

2:15pm Resume and Interview One-on-Few Workshop (break included)

4:00pm Career Panel Discussion (Interview the Interviewers!)

6:30pm Student Poster Session

8:00pm Student DVD Swap: Ventana Room

8:00am Welcoming Remarks Steve Zubrick, NWA President,

NOAA/NWS Sterling, VA Steve Harned, NWA Executive

Director, Raleigh, NC Erik Pytlak, Chair, NWA 2010 Lo-

cal Program Committee, Tucson, AZ

8:15am Keynote Address Josh Rubenstein, Chief Meteorolo-

gist, KCBS-TV, Los Angeles, CA

Session I: Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes I8:45am VORTEX II Operations Center:

Bridging the Gap between Research and Operations

Patrick T. Marsh, Michael Coniglio and Louis Wicker, NOAA/Office of Atmospheric Research/NSSL

Norman, OK; Kevin Scharfenberg, Chris Sohl and Kevin Brown, NOAA/National Weather Service,

Norman, OK; Jim Purpura, NOAA/National Weather Service, San Diego, CA; Michael J. Hudson,

NOAA/National Weather Service, Kansas City, MO; Steve Cobb, NOAA/National Weather Service, Lubbock, TX; Mark Britt and Fred Glass (Chair, NWA Awards Committee), NOAA/National Weather Service, Saint Louis, MO

9:00am A Comparison of Significant Tornadoes in North Alabama since 2008

Brian Carcione, Chris Darden, and Jennifer L. Lee, NOAA/National Weather Service, Huntsville, AL

9:15am The 1989 and 2010 Huntsville, Alabama Tornadoes: Societal Impacts and Warning Operations

Jennifer L. Lee and Kristen Scotten, NOAA/National Weather Service, Huntsville, AL; Angelica Betancourt-Negron, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR

9:30am The 19 August 2009 Twin Cities Area Tornadoes: High Resolution Observed and Modeled Characteristics

Tom Hultquist, NOAA/National Weather Service, Chanhassen, MN

9:45am Radar Composite Analyses of Tornado-Producing Mesocyclones Across the Gulf Coastal StatesAriel Cohen, Joanne Culin and Jared Allen, NOAA/National Weather Service, Jackson, MS


Session II: Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes II10:30am A Mesoscale and Stormscale

Analysis of the Historic Yazoo City Mississippi Violent Tornado of 24 April 2010

Alan Gerard (NWA Past President ‘07, and NWA Commissioner of Committees) and Greg Garrett, NOAA/National Weather Service, Jackson, MS

10:45am Warning Services and Decision Support for the Historic Yazoo City, MS Violent Tornado of 24 April 2010

Alan Gerard (NWA Past President ’07 and NWA Commissioner of Committees) and Stephen Wilkinson, NOAA/National Weather Service, Jackson, MS

11:00am A Study on the Environments of Significant Tornadoes Occurring Within the Warm Sector versus Those Occurring Along Boundaries

Jonathan Garner, NOAA/National Weather Service/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK

11:15am Morphologic Investigation of Thunderstorm Initiates and GIS Attributes with Testing for Improved Operational Nowcasting of Thunderstorms and their Severity in New Jersey

Paul J. Croft (NWA Past President ‘04), Danielle Fadeski, Alexis Ottati and Jackie Parr, Kean University, Union, NJ

12:30pm Daily Weather Briefing

Session III: Heavy Rain and Flash Flooding I12:45pm Analysis of the May 1-2, 2010

Tennessee Heavy Rain Event M. Sean Ryan, NOAA/

National Weather Service/Hydrometeorological Prediction Center,

Camp Springs, MD

August 2010 ~ Newsletter 3

Tuesday, October 5 8:00am Keynote Address Thomas Swetnam, Director, The

Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Session V: Fire Weather8:30am Historic 2000 Wildfire Season: A

Look Back Ten Years Later Richard Okulski (Chair, NWA

Specialized Operational Services Committee), NOAA/National Weather Service, Memphis, TN; and Scott Birch, NOAA/National Weather Service, Salt Lake City, UT

8:45am A Review of the 2010 Fire Season Major Lightning Outbreaks

James Wallman and Rhett Milne, NOAA/National Weather Service, Reno, NV

9:00am Assessing Critical Fire Weather Conditions Using a Red Flag Threat Index

Gregory P Murdoch, NOAA/National Weather Service, Midland, TX; Christopher Gitro, NOAA/National Weather Service, Binghamton, NY

9:15am Encouraging and Recognizing Community Wildfire Preparedness

Christopher N. Jones and Kevin P. Lynott, NOAA/ National Weather Service, Riverton, WY

1:00pm The Tennessee Floods of May 2010: A Satellite Perspective

Sheldon J. Kusselson, Limin Zhao, and Robert Kuligowski, NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Camp Springs, MD; Stan Kidder and John Forsythe, Colorado State University/CIRA, Fort Collins, CO

1:15pm Decision Support Service throughout Tennessee s Historic Flooding Event of 1-2 May 2010

James LaRosa and Thomas Johnstone, NOAA/National Weather Service, Nashville, TN; Richard Okulski, (Chair, NWA Specialized Operational Services Committee), NOAA/National Weather Service, Memphis, TN

1:30pm Killer Flash Flooding: The Beginning of an Epic Flood in North Georgia

Kent Frantz, NOAA/National Weather Service, Atlanta, GA

1:45pm Mesoscale and Synoptic Analysis of the August 4, 2009 Louisville Flash Flooding Event

John D. Gordon (NWA Councilor and Chair, NWA Membership and Marketing Committee), and John S. Denman, NOAA/National Weather Service, Louisville, Kentuky

2:00pm Remnant Tropical Systems and their Impact on the mid-Mississippi Valley, September 2008

Fred Glass (Chair, NWA Awards Committee), NOAA/National Weather Service, Saint Louis, MO

2:15pm Improving Excessive Rainfall Forecasts at HPC by using the “Spatial Density” Approach to High Resolution Models

Michael Eckert, David Novak, and Keith Brill, NOAA/National Weather Service/Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD

2:30pm Poster Session I: Severe Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Flash Floods, Lightning, QPE and NWP, and Extreme Event Characterization

Session IV: Heavy Rain and Flash Flooding II4:00pm Modeling Flood Response in

Fast Responding Catchments over Diverse Terrain and Climatic Regimes of the Desert Southwest and Northeast

Michael Schaffner, NOAA/National Weather Service, Binghamton, NY; Patrick D. Broxton, Peter A. Troch, David Goodrich, and Hoshin Gupta, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Carl Unkrich, USDA-ARS, Tucson, AZ, Thorsten Wagener, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

4:15pm Enhancement of the Flash Flood Monitoring & Prediction (FFMP) Project with a Localized Flashpoint Dataset

Timothy Lahmers, James Nieder, Michael DeFino, and Chad Kauffman, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; Robert Davis, NOAA/National Weather Service, Pittsburgh, PA

4:30pm Multi-Partner Decision Support Lessons Learned: Experiences from the 2010 Minnesota and Upper Mississippi Valley’s Spring Flood

Diane Cooper, NOAA/National Weather Service, Chanhassen, MN

4:45pm Flash Flood Monitoring & Prediction (FFMP): A GIS-based tutorial

Steven Michel, Dustin Snare, Katelyn Welsh and Chad Kauffman, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; Robert Davis, NOAA/National Weather Service, Pittsburgh, PA

5:30pm Ice Breaker at the Arizona State Museum

9:30am Communicating Fire Weather Information and Assessing Societal Response--A Critical Connection to Save Lives and Property

Peter Roohr, NOAA/National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD; Kenneth Carey (Chair, NWA Professional Development Committee), Noblis Center for Sustainability, Falls Church, VA; Heath Hockenberry, NOAA/National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD; Sher Schranz, NOAA/Office of Atmospheric Research/Earth Systems Resource Laboratory, Boulder, CO

Continuation of Monday, October 4


9:45 am Online Fire Courses Available from the COMET Program Elizabeth Mulvihill Page and Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/COMET, Charlotte, NC


Session VI: Lightning10:30am New Concepts and Methodology

in Lightning Forecasting Paul Frisbie, Mike Meyers, Jeff

Colton and Jim Daniels, NOAA/National Weather Service; Grand Junction, CO

10:45am Thunderstorm Nowcasting using the Vaisala Global Lightning Dataset GLD360

Nicholas W.S. Demetriades and Ronald L. Holle (NWA 2010 Local Program Committee), Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ

11:00am Exploring a Physically-based Tool for Lightning Cessation: Preliminary Results

Elise V. Schultz (NWA Student Councilor), Lawrence D. Carey, Dennis E. Buechler, and Patrick N. Gatlin, University of Alabama – Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; Walter A. Patterson, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL

11:15am Mechanisms of Lightning Injury Should Affect Lightning Safety Messages

Mary Ann Cooper, University of Illinois-Chicago (retired), River Forest, IL; and Ronald L. Holle (NWA 2010 Local Program Committee), Holle Meteorology and Photography, Inc., Oro Valley, AZ

12:30pm Daily Weather Briefing Session VII: Quantitative Precipitation Esti-mation and Numerical Weather Prediction I12:45pm Relationship between Cloud-to-

Ground Lightning Events and Precipitation: The Spatial and Time Resolution Problem

Carlos Minjarez, Christopher L. Castro (NWA 2010 Local Program Committee), and Phillip Krider, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Kenneth Cummins, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ

1:00pm Impacts of Complex Terrain on the Occurrence and Forecast of Freezing Rain in British Columbia

Quanzhen Geng, Environment Canada, Pacific Storm Prediction Center, Vancouver, BC

1:15pm Exploring the Use of Convection-Allowing Guidance to Improve Warm-season Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts

Bruce Sullivan, Richard Bann, Faye Barthold, Michael Bodner, David Novak, and Robert Oravec, NOAA/National Weather Service/Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD

1:30pm Examining the Use of a Probabilistic Precipitation Algorithm for High-impact Thresholds

Ken Pomeroy, NOAA/National Weather Service, Salt Lake City, UT; and Don Britton, NOAA/National Weather Service, Great Falls, MT

1:45pm Best Practices for NWP: The Nexus of Satellite Observations and Initial Conditions

Jordan Gerth, University of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI

2:00pm Application of a Rapidly Updating Local Model for Convective Forecasting

Michael P. Foster, Matthew Foster and David L. Andra, Jr.; NOAA/National Weather Service, Norman, OK

2:15pm Improving Snow Processes in the NCEP NOAH Land Model for Weather Forecasting

Xubin Zeng, Zhuo Wang, and Mike Leuthold, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

2:30pm Keancast - Kean University’s Weathercasting System

Paul J. Croft (NWA Past President ’04), Matt Albanese and Tom Skic, Kean University, Union, NJ

2:45pm Coffee Break. Exhibits Open: Sabino/Pima Rooms

Session VIII:Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Numerical Weather Prediction II

3:15pm Integrating the High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Atmospheric Model into Wind Operations at the Bonneville Power Administration

Charles Ross and Mike Van Tress, Department of Energy/Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR

3:30pm Adding Value to the Guidance Beyond Day Two: Temperature Forecast Opportunities Across the NWS Southern Region

Bernard N. Meisner (NWA Councilor), NOAA/National Weather Service, Ft. Worth, TX; and Nestor S. Flecha, University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR

3:45pm A Methodology for Operational Microscale Forecasting

David L. Andra Jr., Matthew Foster, Timothy Judd, Michael P. Foster, and Thomas Curl, NOAA/National Weather Service, Norman, OK

Session IX: Weather Decision Support and Outreach I4:00pm NWS SAFER (Societal Applications For Enhanced Readiness) Program Darone Jones, NOAA/National

Weather Service, Salt Lake City, UT

4:15pm Integrated Hazard Information Services (IHIS)

John Ferree and Kevin Scharfenberg, NOAA/National Weather Service, Norman, OK; Tracy Hansen and Thomas J. Lefebvre, NOAA/Office of Atmospheric Research/ESRL, Boulder, CO

4:30pm National Weather Service 2010 Customer Satisfaction Survey Results

Douglas Young, Andy Horvitz, Sal Romano and Andrew Noel, NOAA/National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD

4:45pm Using Automobiles and Other Vehicles as Mobile Weather Platforms

Michael B. Chapman, Sheldon Drobot and Amanda Anderson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

Continuation of Tuesday, October 5


8:00am Keynote Address Vickie Nadolski, Director, NOAA/

National Weather Service Western Region, Salt Lake City, UT

Session X: Weather Decision Support and Outreach II8:30am Weather Across Borders:

Initiatives and Practices on the Texas-Mexico Border Nezette Rydell, NOAA/National Weather Service, Boulder, CO; Jeral Estupiñán, NOAA/National Weather Service, Brownsville, TX

8:45am 21st Century Weather Decision Support Service for the Aviation Community: The Total Integration of Weather into the Decision Making Process

Brandon Smith and Jeffery Tongue (Co-chair, NWA Education Committee), NOAA/National Weather Service, Upton, NY

9:00am Weather Decision Support for NASA at the NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group

Frank Brody, NOAA/National Weather Service/Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX

9:15am Statistical Analysis of Model Data for Operational Space Launch Weather Support at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

William H. Bauman III, NASA/Applied Meteorology Group/ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL

9:30am National Weather Service Hydrology: Now and in the Future

David B. Reed, David Welsh, and Jeff Graschel, NOAA/National Weather Service, Slidell, LA

9:45am Weather Decision Support and Societal Impacts at a Large Outdoor Venue: A Case Study from the 2010 Beale Street Music Festival

Jon W. Zeitler, NOAA/National Weather Service, Austin/San Antonio, TX; Richard Okulski (Chair, NWA Specialized Operational Services Committee), and Jonathan Howell, NOAA/National Weather Service, Memphis, TN

10:00am Poster Session II: Weather Decision Support and Outreach, Remote Sensing, Winter and Marine Weather, Climate and Climate Change

11:30am Daily Weather Briefing

11:45am NWA Annual Awards Luncheon

2:15pm The 2010 Weather Year in Review

Greg Carbin, NOAA/NWS/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK


Session XI: In-situ and Remote Sensing3:15pm Dual Polarization Radar: An

Update on the Upgrade Paul Schlatter, NOAA/National

Weather Service/WDTB, Norman, OK

3:30pm NOAA’s Satellites: Operational Updates, AWIPS Products, Fire and Ice, and More!

Thomas Renkevens and Brian Hughes, NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Camps Springs, MD

3:45pm Cooperative Weather Observer Program COOP: Beyond 2010 a Good Look at the Program

Joel Cline, NOAA/National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD

Wednesday, October 6

4:00pm AWIPS-II and GOES-R: When Updated Information Processing Systems and New Satellites Meet

Jordan Gerth, University of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI

4:15pm GOES-R Proving Ground Plans for the 2010 Hurricane Season at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) Spring Experiment

James Gurka, Steve Goodman, and Timothy Schmit, NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, Greenbelt, MD; Chris Siewert, NOAA/National Weather Service/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; Mark DeMaria, NOAA/National Weather Service/Tropical Prediction Center,

Coral Gables, FL

4:30pm NOAA’s Role in the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission

Ralph Ferraro (Chair, NWA Remote Sensing Committee), NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, College Park, MD

4:45pm Examination of a Winter Storm Using a Micro-Rain Radar and AMDAR Aircraft Soundings

Barrett Smith and Jonathan Blaes, NOAA/National Weather Service, Raleigh, NC; Sandra Yuter,

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

8:00am Keynote Address

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9:30am COAMPS-TC Forecasts of Tropical Cyclones Interacting with Mountain Islands in the Pacific

Brian J. Billings, National Research Council, Monterey, CA; James D. Doyle, USN/Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA

9:45am The Storm Surge and Inundation Modeling under CIPS (Chesapeake Bay Inundation Prediction System) Project for the November 2009 Noreaster for Hampton Roads Virginia

John Billet, NOAA/National Weather Service, Wakefield, VA; Steve Zubrick (NWA President), NOAA/National Weather Service, Sterling, VA; Harry V. Wang, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences

Glouchester Point, VA


Session XIII: Improving Extreme Weather Event Characterization I10:30am Lessons Learned From the

Pacific Pounding of January 2010

Chris Stachelski, NOAA/National Weather Service, Las Vegas, NV

10:45am A Review of the 18-23 January 2010 Arizona Winter Storms Paul Iñiguez, NOAA/National Weather Service, Phoenix, AZ; Glenn Lader (NWA 2010 Local Program Committee), NOAA/National Weather Service, Tucson, AZ

11:00am Summer Dust Storms in Phoenix, Arizona: Station Climatology and Classification of Synoptic Scale Patterns

Craig Shoemaker (NWA 2010 Local Program Committee) and Jeffrey T. Davis, NOAA/National Weather Service, Tucson, AZ

11:15am Issuing Experimental Warnings at the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed

Greg Stumpf and Travis Smith, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK

12:30am Daily Weather Briefing

8:00am Keynote Address Louis W. Uccellini, Director,

NOAA/National Weather Service National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Camp Spring, MD

Session XII: Winter and Marine Weather8:30am Conceptual Model Verification:

Heavy Snow Producing Northeast U.S. Cyclones

Chad M. Gravelle and Charles E. Graves, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO; Martin A. Baxter

Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

8:45am The Application of Diabatic Heating in Q-vectors for the Study of a Midwest Cyclone Event

Justin J. Abraham, Katie L. Crandall, Laurel P. McCoy, Rachel Tillot, Patrick S. Market (NWA President-Elect, Chair, NWA Nominating Committee, and Chair, 3rd Annual Student Session), and Anthony R. Lupo (Editor, NWA Digest), University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

9:00am Collection and Analysis of Upper-air Sounding Data (CAUSD) during the Profiling Of Winter Storms (PLOWS) Project. Part I: Overview

Patrick S. Market (NWA President-Elect, Chair, NWA Nominating Committee, and Chair, 3rd Annual Student Session), Katie Crandall, Vanessa Melton, and Jennifer Power, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

9:15am Collection and Analysis of Upper Air Sounding Data (CAUSD) during the Profiling Of Winter Storms (PLOWS) Project. Part II: Lightning-bearing storms Patrick S. Market (NWA President-Elect, Chair, NWA Nominating Committee, and Chair, 3rd Annual Student Session) , Robert Rauber, Joseph Wegman, and Katie Crandall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Thursday, October 7

Session XIV: Improving Extreme Weather Event Characterization II12:45pm Storm-Based Convective

Warning Best Practices Kevin Scharfenberg and John

Ferree, NOAA/National Weather Service, Norman, OK

1:00pm Fog Assessment, Verification, and Operational Research using GIS

Paul J. Croft (NWA Past President ‘04), Feng Qi and Alexis Ottati, Kean University, Union, NJ

1:15pm Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Research Diagnostics to Improve Clear Air Turbulence at NOAA’s Aviation Weather Center

Gary P. Ellrod, Editor-in-Chief, NWA Digest; John A. Knox, University of Georgia,

Athens, GA; Steven Silberberg, NOAA/National Weather Service, Kansas City, MO

1:30pm Anticipating a Rare Event Utilizing Forecast Anomalies: An Event and Forecast for the Ages?

Randy Graham (NWA Councilor and NWA 2010 Local Program Committee), NOAA/National Weather Service, Salt Lake City, UT

Session XV: Climate and Climate Change I1:45pm A Severe Storm Environment

Climatology for the Continental United States

Russell S. Schneider and Andy R. Dean, NOAA/National Weather Service/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK

2:00pm Climatology, Life Cycle, and Impacts of Intermountain Cyclones

W. James Steenburgh, Matt Jeglum and Greg West, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Lance Bosart and Tiros Lee, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY

2:15pm Climatology of Cold-Season Nonconvective Wind Events For the Northern Plains Region

Jonathan Kurtz and Jason Martinelli, Creighton University, Omaha, NE



Session XVI: Climate and Climate Change II3:00pm The Impact of Interaction

between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity

David R. Roache and Jennifer M. Collins, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

3:15pm Statistical Analysis and Mechanisms Examining the Link Between the North American Monsoon System and Easterly Waves

Simona Seastrand, Yolande Serra, Christopher L. Castro (NWA 2010 Local Program Committee), and Elizabeth Ritchie, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Continuation of Thursday, October 7

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3:30pm Is Too Much Rain Always a Bad Thing?

John Keyes and Dan Valle, NOAA/National Weather Service, Pocatello, ID

3:45pm Extreme Precipitation Events in Future Climates: Water-based Research Applications in the Colorado Front Range

Kelly Mahoney, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; David Raff, John England and Jade Soddell, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Lakewood, CO; Michael Alexander, NOAA/Office of Atmospheric Research/ESRL, Boulder, CO; James Scott and Joe Barsugli, NOAA/Office of Atmospheric Research/CIRES, Boulder, CO

4:00pm The 2009-2010 Extreme Precipitation Deficit and Record Heat in South Texas: Worst Drought on Record Followed by a Cold and Wet Winter

Alexander O. Tardy, NOAA/National Weather Service, Corpus Christi, TX

4:30pm How Atypical Were the Impacts of the 2009-10 El Nino on Central California?

Gary E. Sanger and Brian S. Ochs, NOAA/National Weather Service, Hanford, CA

4:45pm Closing Remarks

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The 35th Annual NWA Meeting : Oct. 2 – 7, Tucson, Ariz.“Fire and Ice: Science and Society”

This year’s theme is emphasizing the ongoing and emerging interaction between the branches of the weather and water

enterprise, including the private sector, media, academia and government. Topics will include: societal impact research and

public policymaker interaction with weather forecasters; tropical cyclone forecasting, particularly in the eastern Pacific; wildfire forecasting; hydrometeorology, precipitation forecasting and

estimation; innovative uses for lightning data; winter and severe convective storms, with emphasis on high plains and western

U.S. geography issues; data denial and how operational forecasters cope with key data losses; and climate variability

and forecasting, particularly on the intra-annual level.

Sept. 1 – Last day to obtain NWA rate at the Marriott Tucson University Park

Sept. 24 – Last day for discounted pre-registration fees

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