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Program » Jefferson Award to Claudine Woodard
Claudine Woodard
awarded
the Thomas Jefferson Award
2001
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The National Weather Service (NWS) honored Mrs. Claudine
Woodard of Winnsboro, TX, on Tuesday December 11, 2001, for her outstanding
contribution to the field of meteorology as a volunteer weather observer
for the NWS in Shreveport for over 49 years. The NWS presented the Thomas
Jefferson Award, which is the highest award the NWS presents to volunteer
observers. No more than 5 Jefferson Awards are given annually. The award
was created in 1959 as a way for the NWS to honor observers for outstanding
achievements in the field of meteorological observation.
A group picture with Mrs. Claudine Woodard.
From left to right: Marion Kuykendall (DAPM), H. L.Woodard (spouse),
Claudine Woodard (recipient), Sammy Friday (backup observer),
Steve Griffin (HMT), and Lee Harrison (MIC).
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From Left to Right: Marion Kuykendall (DAPM),
H. L. Woodard (Spouse), Claudine Woodard (Recipient), Steve
Griffin (HMT), Lee Harrison (MIC), and Mike Asmus (Regional
Cooperative Program Manager from Fort Worth Regional Headquarters).
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Mrs Woodard records rainfall and other weather
events in the Winnsboro, TX area. She provides a written record each
month for the Shreveport Forecast Office, then the data is sent to the
National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC, where the data is archived
and published. In addition, when precipitation does occur, she reports
the amount of precipitation via phone to a computer in the Shreveport
Forecast Office. That report is then directed to the engineers for use
in flash flood forecasting and flood control planning.
Marion Kuykendall and Lee Harrison presenting Claudine
Woodard with her Thomas Jefferson Award
as well as certificates and congratulatory letters.
In addition to the Thomas Jefferson award (top left),
Mrs Woodard received an official certificate of recognition with the
state seal from Texas Governor Rick Perry (top right), certificate of
congratulatory from Texas state Representative Tom Ramsey, a senate
proclamation certificate with the senate state seal from Texas state
Senator David Cain (bottom left), congratulatory letters were from U.S.
House of Representative Max Sandlin, U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchison
and U.S. Senator Phil Gramm.
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