Session 1 | 
|   | Severe Storms Impacts on the Urban Environment: Modeling and Observations  | 
|   | Chair: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada 
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 | 3:30 PM | 1.1 | The dramatic effect of tornadic severe weather on a rapidly growing urban interface      Ivory J. Small, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA; and T. Mackechnie and S. Vanderburg | 
 | 3:45 PM | 1.2 | Extreme microburst events in the Phoenix metropolitan area      Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Howard, D. P. Jorgensen, C. Dempsey, and G. D. Green | 
 | 4:00 PM | 1.3 | High resolution WRF and ADCIRC simulations of hurricane Gloria (1985) for the New York City Metropolitan Region     Tom DiLiberto, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto | 
 | 4:15 PM | 1.4 | The Use of Mesoscale Models for Analysis of High Impact Weather Events      Alfred M. Klausmann, TRC, Lowell, MA | 
 | 4:30 PM | 1.5 | Urban growth and aerosol effects on convection over Houston      Gustavo Carrió, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Y. Cheng, W. R. Cotton, and S. M. Saleeby | 
 | 4:45 PM | 1.6 | Development and deployment of a mesoscale weather and outage prediction service for electric utility operations      Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino, H. Li, E. Novakovskaia, and J. M. Drexel |