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Second Department of Commerce Bronze Medal |
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Huntsville forecasters Jason Elliott (left) and Brian Carcione
(right) pose with the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal
plaque outside the awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. |
Representatives from the National Weather Service forecast office
in Huntsville recently went to Washington, D.C. to receive another
Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, the office's second in
2 years (the first was awarded
in December 2004 for work during the May 2003 floods). The
medal, shared with NWS offices in Blacksburg, Wakefield, and
Sterling, VA, Raleigh, NC, Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, State
College, PA, Binghamton, NY, and Birmingham and Mobile, AL,
was awarded for customer service that enabled emergency managers
and citizens to take life-saving actions during Hurricane Ivan,
which struck the United States in September 2004.
Ivan made landfall along the Alabama Gulf Coast and tracked
across the state on September 16. In addition to causing wind
and flooding damage across Alabama, the storm's remnants caused
massive flooding across the northeastern United States later
that week. Forecasters Jason Elliott and Brian Carcione were
the office representatives to the awards ceremony, which took
place on Friday, March 17.
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Representatives from
11 NWS offices pose together on stage with NOAA Administrator
Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher (far left) and NWS Director
General David L. Johnson (far right). NWS Huntsville's representative,
forecaster Jason Elliott, is second from right.
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