Agenda
Building Local and National Partnerships To Save Lives
Thursday, February 27, 2003
** This was the page for the 2003 meeting! **
The 2004 meeting can be found at www.norman.noaa.gov/nsww2004/
Update September 30, 2003: Many talks are now online (see links below) and planning for the 2004 meeting is underway!
| Welcome and General Introductions | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome Dan McCarthy Warning Coordination Meteorologist NOAA Storm Prediction Center |
| National Focus | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Kary Cox President of OEMA |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Are You Ready: A Guide to Citizen Preparedness
*online |
| 9:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:00 a.m. | The Value of Partnerships
to NOAA's Mission *online Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., U.S. Navy (Ret.) Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator |
| 10:30 a.m. | Value of the Local
Weather Forecast Office (WFO) as Your Severe Weather Warning Office
*online Bill Proenza Director, NOAA-NWS Southern Region Headquarters |
| 11:00 a.m. | Vendor Presentations |
| 11:30 a.m. | Lunch |
| Safety Session sposored by: Midland Radio Corp. |
|
| 1:00 p.m. | Lightning Casualties:
How and What Mary Ann Cooper, MD Department of Emergency Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 1:30 p.m. | Lightning Casualties: When
and Where *online Ron Holle Meteorologist Vaisala Tucson, AZ |
| 2:00 p.m. | Severe Weather Safety in Outdoor
(Public) Venues Les Lemon Radar, Severe Storms, and Research Meteorologist Basic Commerce and Industries, Inc. and Roger Edwards Forecaster, NOAA Storm Prediction Center |
| 2:30 p.m. | Flash Flood Safety Jon Zeitler Science and Operations Officer NOAA-NWS Forecast Office in Austin-San Antonio |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Break |
| 4:00 p.m. | Developing Partnerships
to Save Lives *online Brig. General John (Jack) J. Kelly, Jr., (Ret.) Assistant Administrator of NOAA for Weather Services NOAA National Weather Service |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Breakout sessions: A) StormReady These breakout sessions are held twice each day, Thursday and Friday so that attendees may attend all four. |
| 5:30 p.m. |
Breakout sessions: A) StormReady These breakout sessions are held twice each day, Thursday and Friday so that attendees may attend all four. |
Friday, February 28, 2003
| The Decision Making Process: From Outlook to Warning | |
| 8:00 a.m. | SPC Outlook to
Watch *online John Hart Forecaster NOAA Storm Prediction Center |
| 8:20 a.m. | NWS Warning Process Brian Peters Warning Coordination Meteorologist NOAA-NWS Forecast Office in Birmingham, AL |
| 8:40 a.m. | Ground Truth: Valuable
Source *online Dennis McCarthy Director NOAA-NWS Central Region Headquarters |
| 9:00 a.m. | Break |
| 9:30 a.m. | Emergency Management:
Warning Action *online Bob Goldhammer Emergency Manager Polk County, IA |
| 9:50 a.m. | Media: Getting
the Word to the Masses *online James Spann Chief Meteorologist ABC 33/40 Birmingham, AL |
| 10:10 a.m. | Panel Discussion Moderator: Dan McCarthy Panelists are the speakers in this session |
| 11:00 a.m. | Vendor Presentations |
| 11:30 a.m. | Lunch |
| NWS/EM/Media Partnerships | |
| 12:30 p.m. |
The Van Wert Experience, November 10, 2002
*online |
| 12:50 p.m. | Weather Partnerships
for Moore, Oklahoma *online Gayland Kitch Emergency Manager Moore, Oklahoma |
| 1:10 p.m. | Development of
a School Network Partnered with NWS and Emergency Management
*online John McLaughlin KCCI Des Moines, IA |
| 1:30 p.m. | William Wagner Emergency Manager Marathon, FL |
| 1:50 p.m. |
Panel Discussion on NWS/EM/Media Partnerships |
| 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | National Partnerships The Honorable Tom Cole United States House of Representatives 4th District Oklahoma |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Breakout sessions: A) StormReady These breakout sessions are held twice each day, Thursday and Friday so that attendees may attend all four. |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Breakout sessions: A) StormReady These breakout sessions are held twice each day, Thursday and Friday so that attendees may attend all four. |
| 5:30 p.m. | Sessions end |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Workshop Buffet Speaker: |
Saturday, March 1, 2003
| Other Hazards | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Process for Forecasting Transport
and Dispersion Elements and the Role of Emergency Management
*online:
part 1 and part 2 Brent Gordon Meteorologist NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction - Central Operations |
| 8:30 a.m. | El Nino *online Dr. Peter Lamb Director, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies University of Oklahoma |
| 9:00 a.m. | Fire Weather
*online Rusty Billingsley NOAA-NWS Fire Weather Program Manager |
| 9:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Improving Access to Hazardous Weather Information for
Deaf and Hard of Hearing People *online |
| 10:30 a.m. | Mobile Homes and Tornadoes
*online Dr. Harold Brooks Research Meteorologist NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory |
| 11:00 a.m. | What Was Learned
at LaPlata, MD *online Tim Marshall, P.E. Haag Engineering |
| 11:30 a.m. | Lunch |
| Field Observations and Research | |
| 1:00 p.m. | Phased Array Radar
*online Doug Forsyth Director, Radar Research and Development Division NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory |
| 1:30 p.m. | DOW Data From May 3, 1999 Dr. Josh Wurman Associate Professor of Meteorology School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma |
| 2:00 p.m. | New Ideas About the Rear-Flank
Downdraft *online Dr. Paul Markowski Department of Meteorology Pennsylvania State University |
| 2:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. |
Free Breakout Session* Storm Spotter Training, Rooms A-F (Grand
Ballroom - Training Center) Radar Interpretation I |
| 4:15 p.m. |
Free Breakout Session* Storm Spotter Training (continues), Rooms
A-F (Grand Ballroom - Training Center) Radar Interpretation II |
*Free basic and advanced spotter training and radar interpretation sessions will be held at the end of the conference. Registration is requested so that seating can be made available.
Updated September 30, 2003