Session 4B |
| | Severe Weather Part I |
| | CoChair: Ed Szoke, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO
Chair: Renee Fair, NOAA/NWS, Little Rock, AR
|
| 4:00 PM | 4B.1 | RADAR characteristics of the July, 2008 New Hampshire tornado: precursor and tornadogenesis stages 
John W. Cannon, NOAA/NWS, Gray, ME; and D. St. Jean and M. Cempa |
| 4:15 PM | 4B.2 | A preliminary investigation of the 27 June 2008 damaging wind event in the Omaha metro and surrounding areas 
Brian E. Smith, NOAA/NWS Valley, NE, Valley, NE; and B. E. Mayes |
| 4:30 PM | 4B.3 | Unusual Severe Weather Outbreak over the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area on 28-29 August 2008
G. Douglas Green, NOAA/NWSFO, Phoenix, AZ; and P. M. Iñiguez, J. W. Rogers, and M. Leuthold |
| 4:45 PM | 4B.4 | The northern California lightning event of June 20-21, 2008
Mark Burger, NOAA/NWS, Eureka, CA |
| 5:00 PM | 4B.5 | Operational forecasting of tornado locations: a verification study of "pathcasts"
Kevin A. Scharfenberg, NOAA/NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Norman, OK ; and D. Speheger, A. R. Dean, K. L. Ortega, and K. Manross |
| 5:15 PM | 4B.6 | Forecast guidance for severe thunderstorms based on identification of extreme phenomena in convection-allowing model forecasts
Ryan Sobash, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Kain, D. R. Bright, A. R. Dean, M. C. Coniglio, S. J. Weiss, and J. J. Levit |