SR/SSD 98-37
10-1-98
Technical Attachment
1998 National Weather Association Meeting
Oklahoma City, OK, October 17-23, 1998
Presentations by NWS Southern Region Employees
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Your Local NWS Office Becomes Incapacitated -- Now What?
Jim Stefkovich: NWS Forecast Office, Fort Worth, TX.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Criteria Team
Jim Purpura: NWS, Norman OK, Steve Corfidi and Mark Darrow: NWS/ Storm Prediction Center, Norman OK, William Alexander: NOAA/NWS Office of Meteorology, Silver Spring MD.
Use of WSR-88D Shear Parameters During Tornadic Events
George Wilken: NWS Forecast Office, Little Rock AR
Correlation Between Tornado Damage Paths and WSR-88D Signatures, and Resulting Implications for the use of Pathcasts in Tornado Warnings
Steven Piltz and Richard Smith: NWS, Tulsa OK
Examination and Implications of WSR-88D Based Warning Statistics at WSFO Norman
Megan Terry and Dennis McCarthy: NWS Forecast Office, Norman OK
Climatology, Population Density, and Mesoscale Influences on the Warning Decision Process of the 25 May 1998 Oklahoma County Supercell Thunderstorm
Kevin W. Brown and Christopher J. Sohl: NWS, Norman OK
Situation Specific Tornado Warnings at NWS Forecast Office Tulsa
Steven Piltz and Richard Smith: NWS, Tulsa OK
A Multifaceted Review of the East Central Florida Tornado Outbreak of 22-23 February 1998
David W. Sharp, Scott M. Spratt, Anthony Cristaldi, and Bartlett C. Hagemeyer: NWS Forecast Office, Melbourne FL
The Alabama Killer Supercell of 8 April 1998
Kevin J. Pence, Christopher A. Liscinsky, and Ronald A. Murphy: NWS, Birmingham AL
Tornadogenesis Associated with the 1 July 1997 Derecho- A Radar Perspective
Gregory A. Tipton: NWS Wilmington OH, and Eric D. Howieson: NWS, Tulsa, OK
Coach: Design and Implementation of an Operational Performance Support System at the Tulsa NWS Forecast Office
Steve E. Nelson and Lans P. Rothfusz: NWS, Tulsa OK, Christopher Jacobson: NWS Corpus Christi TX, and J.T. Johnson: NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman OK
WSR-88D Precipitation Estimates Using the Tropical Z-R Relationship During Six Heavy Rainfall Events Across Southeast Texas and Southern Louisiana
Robert Darby: NWS, Lake Charles LA
A Case Analysis of the Unexpected Record Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama Snowstorm of 14 December 1997
Alan Gerard, Rusty Pfost, and Stephen Miller: NWS, Jackson MS, Corey Mead, NWS Valley NE, and Peter Wolf, NWS Wichita KS
POSTERS
SMG's Upper Wind Forecast Support to the NASA X38 Project
Dan G. Bellue: NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Johnson Space Center, Houston TX
Multiscale Analyses of a Violent Tornado Outbreak With Attendant Flash Flooding
Joseph Rogash: NWS/Storm Prediction Center, Norman OK, Richard Smith: NWS Tulsa OK, and David Gaffin: NWS, Memphis TN
An Operational Assessment of the 15-19 March 1998 Flood Event Using the WFO Hydrologic Forecast System
Scott Curl and Mike McClure: NWS, Norman OK
The Tuscaloosa Tornado Event of 24 January 1997
Kevin J. Pence and Ronald A. Murphy: NWS, Birmingham AL
EMWIN- The Emergency Manager's Weather Information Network
Jim Purpura and Ken Brown: NWS, Norman OK, Gary Woodall: NWS Southern Region Headquarters, Fort Worth TX, Jim Doherty: NWS Office of Systems Operations, Silver Spring MD
Bow Echo Development in an extreme Cape/Moderate Shear Environment: The East Central Minnesota Storm of 6-7 August 1996
Dan J. Miller: NWS, Norman OK, Richard J. Naistat: NWS, Chanhassen MN
A Phenomena-Specific Approach to Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warning Verification
Barte L. Haake and Steven Amburn: NWS, Tulsa OK
Alternative PoP Verification at WFO Tulsa
Daniel R. Spaeth: NWS, Tulsa OK
An Examination of the Eta 12 Hour Forecasts for Stability Indices Associated with Elevated Upright Convection
Alan Gerard: NWS, Jackson MS
No Tornado At Natchez Mississippi?
Rusty Pfost: NWS, Jackson MS
The Relationship of Tropical Cyclone Motion and Associated Extreme Rainfall Along the Northern Gulf Coast
Rusty Pfost: NWS, Jackson MS
The Development and Evolution of Multiple Tornadoes as Viewed by Doppler Radar
David L. Andra, Jr. and Douglas A. Speheger: NWS, Norman OK
The Alabama Gravity Wave Event of 22 February 1998: A Classic Mesoscale Forecasting Challenge
Tom Bradshaw, Ronald A. Murphy, and Kevin J. Pence: NWS, Birmingham AL
Use of the KSC Mesonet to Track the East Coast Seabreeze During the STS-91 Landing
G. Wayne Baggett, Tim Oram, and Steven J. Sokol: NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Johnson Space Center, Houston TX
Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center QPF Verification
John F. Kuhn, Jeff Graschel, Suzanne Van Cooten: NWS/LMRFC, Slidell LA
Locally Developed Applications for AWIPS at NWS Forecast Office Tulsa
Gregory R. Patrick, James M. Frederick, Steven E. Nelson, and Steven A. Amburn: NWS, Tulsa OK
Development and Use of Decision Trees in the Operational Environment
G. Alan Johnson and Steve Listema: NWS, Slidell LA
OFFICERS, COUNCILORS and COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Bernard N. Meisner (Vice President)
Lans Rothfusz (Secretary)
Gary Petti (Treasurer)
Frank Brody (Councilor and committee chair)
Jose Garcia (Councilor)
Alan Gerard (Committee chair)