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

Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011

Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011

Program Chair: Kevin Knupp , University of Alabama

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Wednesday, 25 January 2012

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
April 27-28 Tornado Outbreak Part I
Location: 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: Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/NCEP/SPC
  8:30 AM
Radar Overview and Visual Documentation of the 27 April 2011 Tornadic Outbreak
Todd A. Murphy, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and T. A. Coleman, R. A. Wade, and K. R. Knupp
  8:45 AM
Diagnosing Total Track Length of Simulated Rotating Storms From Convection-Allowing Ensemble Forecasts for the 27 April Super-Outbreak
Adam Clark, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. T. Marsh, J. Correia Jr., J. Gao, J. S. Kain, M. Xue, and F. Kong

  9:15 AM
Analysis of the N Alabama MCV on the Morning of 27 April 2011
Stephanie Mullins, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and K. Knupp
  9:30 AM
High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Forecast Evaluation of Tornado Events in April and May of 2011
Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, D. C. Dowell, E. P. James, J. M. Brown, P. Hofmann, T. G. Smirnova, and B. D. Jamison
  9:45 AM

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Spouses' Coffee

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )

10:00 AM-6:15 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Exhibit Hours

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Joint Session 2
April 27-28 Tornado Outbreak Part II
Location: 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: William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State Univ.
  10:30 AM
The Dynamics and Morphology of Two Long-Track Tornadic Supercells on 27 April 2011
Timothy A. Coleman, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL ; and K. Knupp and T. Murphy
  10:45 AM
Dual-Polarimetric Radar-Based Tornado Debris Signatures and Paths Associated with Tornadoes Over Northern Alabama During the Historic Outbreak of 27 April 2011
Christopher J. Schultz, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey, E. V. Schultz, W. A. Petersen, P. N. Gatlin, K. R. Knupp, A. L. Molthan, G. J. Jedlovec, B. Carcione, C. B. Darden, and C. C. Crowe
  11:15 AM
Fatalities Associated with the 27 April 2011 Tornadoes in North and Central Georgia
Steven E. Nelson, NOAA/NWSFO, Peachtree City, GA; and T. D. Palmer, J. L. Fieux, L. P. Rothfusz, and J. R. Westbrook
  11:30 AM
How Forecast and Warning Information Did, and Did Not, Shape Response in the April 27, 2011 Tornado Outbreak
Kimberly E. Klockow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. McPherson, A. Tarhule, H. Brooks, and R. P. Thomas
  11:45 AM
Extreme Weather, Extreme Vulnerability and the 2011 Tornado Season
Daniel Sutter, Troy University, Troy, AL; and K. M. Simmons

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Lunch Break
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Joplin Tornado
Location: 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
  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
Recording files available
Lecture L2
Robert E. Horton Lecture
Location: Room 350/351 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Hydrology; the Events; the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the Special Symposium on Technological Advances: Impacts on Hurricane Research and Forecast Improvements; the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 16th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Third Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the 10th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011; and the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges )

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Joint Poster Session 1
April 27-28 Tornado Outbreak
Location: Hall E (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011; and the Major Weather Impacts of 2011 )
 
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A Numerical Study of the 27th April 2011 Tornado Outbreak in the Southeastern U.S. with the WRF-RTFDDA-LES System
Wanli Wu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, M. Ge, J. C. Knievel, S. Swedlin, and J. Pace

 
633
Ensemble Perspective of the 27 April Tornado Outbreak From the Hazardous Weather Testbed Experimental Forecast Program
James Correia Jr., CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/SPC, Norman, OK; and P. Marsh, A. J. Clark, F. Kong, and S. J. Weiss

 
635
April 27-28th Tornado Event in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area
Lorenza Cooper Jr., Howard University, Washington, DC

 
636
Observation and Laboratory Experimentation of Tornadoes Translating Over Complex Topography
Christopher D. Karstens, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr. and P. Sarkar

 
637
Debris Balls As Tornado Indicators in Spring 2011
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

 
638
Public Perception and Response to Severe Weather: Lessons From the 27 April 2011 Tornado Outbreak Across N Alabama
Stephanie Mullins, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and E. V. Schultz and K. Knupp
Manuscript (4.1 MB)

 
639
Assessing the Magnitude and Societal Impacts of the 25-28 April 2011 Tornado Outbreak in the Southeastern U.S
Charles E. Konrad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and M. Kovach, C. M. Fuhrmann, W. Schmitz, J. McLeod, and D. J. Perkins

 
641
Performance of WDT's Automated Tornado Track Product for the 27 April 2011 Southeast US Tornado Outbreak
Benjamin C. Baranowski, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and M. Gaffner, C. D. Goering, E. D. Mitchell, C. W. Porter, and P. L. Spencer


Joint Poster Session 2
Other Tornado Outbreaks and Future Prospects
Location: Hall E (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011; and the Major Weather Impacts of 2011 )
 
643
Operational Aspects of the 16 April Tornadoes and the 27-28 April 2011 Tornado Outbreak in the WFO LWX Forecast Area
Matthew R. Kramar, NWSFO Baltimore/Washington, Sterling, VA; and J. E. Lee and S. Zubrick
Manuscript (4.8 MB)

Poster PDF (8.2 MB)

 
644
The 16 April 2011 EF3 Tornado in Greene and Pitt Counties, Eastern North Carolina
Thomas M. Rickenbach, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

 
645
A Case Study of the 16 April 2011 Tornado Outbreak Across Eastern North Carolina and Southeastern Virginia
Brian Cullen, NOAA/NWS; and D. A. Glenn, S. Kennedy, R. Frederick, A. Zimmerman, R. Hawkins, and C. Goodall

 
646
Mobile Radar Observations and Damage Assessment of the 24 May 2011, Canton Lake, OK Tornado
Karen A. Kosiba, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO; and J. Wurman, P. Robinson, D. W. Burgess, E. R. Mansell, C. M. Schwarz, and D. T. Dawson II

 
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A Comparison Between the 2011 Joplin Tornadic Storm and That of Pierce City of 2003
Neil I. Fox, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and I. Carlos and W. T. Gilmore

 
651
2011 Tornado Warning Performance
John T. Ferree, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK

 
652
Toward Longer Term Prediction of Strong and Violent Tornadoes Using the Southern Oscillation Index
Evan Kodra, Northeastern University, Boston, MA; and W. L. Seaver and A. R. Ganguly


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Other Significant Tornadoes and Future Prospects
Location: 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: Daniel Miller, NOAA/NWS WFO Duluth, Minnesota
  4:00 PM
Central North Carolina Tornadoes From the 16 April 2011 Outbreak
Matthew Parker, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. Blaes, G. Lackmann, and S. Yuter
  4:15 PM
Overview of the 24 May 2011 Tornado Outbreak
Kiel L. Ortega, Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK ; and H. Bluestein, D. W. Burgess, G. S. Garfield, J. G. LaDue, K. L. Manross, B. R. Smith, R. Smith, T. M. Smith, J. C. Snyder, and G. J. Stumpf
  4:30 PM
Rapid-Scan, X-Band, Mobile Doppler Radar Measurements of An EF-5 Tornado in Oklahoma on 24 May 2011
Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. C. Snyder, J. B. Houser, M. M. French, A. L. Pazmany, I. PopStefanija, and R. T. Bluth

  4:45 PM
Radar Input to Tornado Warnings: Where We've Been and Where We Might Go
Donald W. Burgess, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf
  5:00 PM
Mardi Gras 2011 Tornadoes in New Orleans
Kenneth Graham, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA
  5:15 PM

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


92nd AMS Awards Banquet