The Fourth Annual Southeast Severe Storms Symposium will be held at the Bost Extension Center at Mississippi State University in Starkville this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 4-6.
The Friday agenda will be exclusively for broadcasters. Mississippi State features one of the premiere broadcast meteorology schools in the country.
On Saturday, the event will kick off with a focus on tropical weather. There will be four excellent presentations on Hurricane Ivan, tornadoes from landfalling tropical cyclones and the flooding from Tropical Storm Gaston in Virginia. Then Dr. Richard Knaab of the Tropical Prediction Center will give a featured talk on operational forecast improvements at the National Hurricane Center during the 2004 Hurricane Season.
The afternoon session will focus on severe weather. One of the most important presentations of the day will be by Scott Blair and Eric Nguyen of the University of Oklahoma. They captured the Mulvane, Kansas tornado on June 12th of last year. Nguyen shot what must be the most impressive photo of any tornado I have ever seen that day. It was featured on the cover of the Accord Weather Guide Calendar this year. I will get to speak about my chase experience in Harper and Sumner Counties in Kansas on May 29th, followed by an excellent presentation by Texas meteorologist Lon Curtis on enhanced Tornadogenesis. The famous Chuck Doswell will speak on the past, present and future of storm chasing. Meteorologist Jon Davies will talk about tornadoes that occur in the unusual circumstances of low humidity or low wind shear. Severe weather coverage will continue on Sunday morning with additional presentations on specific severe weather outbreaks and other technical topics. The public is welcome to attend. You can register at http://www.msstate.edu/org/nwa/SSSS.htm
The Friday agenda will be exclusively for broadcasters. Mississippi State features one of the premiere broadcast meteorology schools in the country.
On Saturday, the event will kick off with a focus on tropical weather. There will be four excellent presentations on Hurricane Ivan, tornadoes from landfalling tropical cyclones and the flooding from Tropical Storm Gaston in Virginia. Then Dr. Richard Knaab of the Tropical Prediction Center will give a featured talk on operational forecast improvements at the National Hurricane Center during the 2004 Hurricane Season.
The afternoon session will focus on severe weather. One of the most important presentations of the day will be by Scott Blair and Eric Nguyen of the University of Oklahoma. They captured the Mulvane, Kansas tornado on June 12th of last year. Nguyen shot what must be the most impressive photo of any tornado I have ever seen that day. It was featured on the cover of the Accord Weather Guide Calendar this year. I will get to speak about my chase experience in Harper and Sumner Counties in Kansas on May 29th, followed by an excellent presentation by Texas meteorologist Lon Curtis on enhanced Tornadogenesis. The famous Chuck Doswell will speak on the past, present and future of storm chasing. Meteorologist Jon Davies will talk about tornadoes that occur in the unusual circumstances of low humidity or low wind shear. Severe weather coverage will continue on Sunday morning with additional presentations on specific severe weather outbreaks and other technical topics. The public is welcome to attend. You can register at http://www.msstate.edu/org/nwa/SSSS.htm
on February 26, 2005, 10:48 am
the 0s today across the area with lots of sunshine."
You've been spending too much time in the colder climates if you think "the 0s" is not chilly. <g>
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