Submitter: Tanja Fransen, NWS, Portland, OR
Chair: Tanja Fransen, NWS, Portland, OR
Organizers: Thomas Bedard, Senior Manager of Emergency Operations,, Walmart, Bentonville, AR and Owen H. Shieh, Ph.D., WCM, Weather Prediction Center, NWS, College Park, MD
Moderator: John R. Toohey-Morales, WTVJ NBC 6 (retired), Miami, FL
Panelists: Kenneth E. Graham, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; Lucas McDonald, Walmart Corp.; Elaine Godfrey, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UNC Asheville and Gary M. Lackmann, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC