92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Joint Session 3 Joplin Tornado

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Room 252/253 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011; and the Major Weather Impacts of 2011 )
Chair:  Jerold Brotzge, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Real-Time Observations of the May 22nd Joplin, Missouri EF5 Tornado by the USArray Transportable Array Network
Jonathan E. Tytell, University of California, La Jolla, CA; and F. L. Vernon, B. Busby, J. Eakins, M. Hedlin, A. Muschinski, K. Walker, and B. Woodward
  1:45 PM
Performance of Concrete Masonry Buildings in the Joplin Tornado
Timothy P. Marshall, Haag Engineering Co., Irving, TX
  2:00 PM
The May 22, 2011 Tornado Event in Joplin: Societal Aspects of Risk Perception and Warning Response
Jennifer Spinney, Social Science Woven into Meteorology, Norman, OK; and R. Wagenmaker, B. Hale, J. Weaver, and G. Garnet
  2:15 PM