| Sunday, 9 January 2000 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
1 Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
1 Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 10 January 2000 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
1 Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January |
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| 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Monday
Session 1 Invited Presentations |
Organizers: Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; Roger M. Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| 9:00 AM | 1.0a | Introductory Remarks by Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and Roger M. Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| 9:15 AM | 1.1 | Bow Echoes
Morrris Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 1.2 | Mesoscale Analysis Techniques
Melvyn A. Shapiro, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 11:15 AM | 1.3 | Surface Mesohighs and Mesolows
Richard H. Johnson, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 1.4 | Tornadoes and Photogrammetry
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and H. B. Bluestein |
| 2:15 PM | 1.5 | Damage Surveys and F-Scale Assessments
James R. McDonald, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 1.6 | Cloud Tracking with Satellite Imagery
W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI |
| 4:15 PM | 1.7 | Microbursts, Downbursts, and Aviation Safety
James W. Wilson, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
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| 5:00 PM, Monday
1 Sessions end for the day |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday, Hall 4AB
1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
1 Fujita Banquet: Honored Guests - Sumiko Fujita and Kazuya Fujita: Keynote Address by Robert F. Abbey |
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| Tuesday, 11 January 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday
Poster Session 1 Poster Session P1 |
| | P1.1 | Climatology of California Severe Weather: Population Bias or Geographic/Climatic Influences?
Steve E. LaDochy, California State Univ., Los Angeles, CA; and J. N. Brown |
| | P1.2 | A tornado climatology of Wisconsin
Pamela Naber Knox, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and D. G. Norgord |
| | P1.3 | On the importance of post-event surveys in assessing tornado occurrences
Charles A. Doswell III, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf, D. A. Speheger, and M. Branick |
| | P1.4 | Doppler Radar Data Related to F-Scale for the May 3rd Oklahoma City Tornado
Donald W. Burgess, NOAA/NEXRAD Operational Support Facility, Norman, OK; and M. A. Magsig |
| | P1.5 | A Comparison of WSR-88D Radar Velocity Signatures to Tornado Damage for the April 16, 1998 Tornado Outbreak in Middle Tennessee
Timothy W. Troutman, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and T. P. Marshall |
| | P1.6 | A New Look at the Super Outbreak of Tornadoes on 3-4 April 1974
John D. Locatelli, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. T. Stoelinga and P. V. Hobbs |
| | P1.7 | Computer Animations of Tornado Tracks, Radar Summaries, Synoptic Frontal Features and Model Simulations in the Super Tornado Outbreak of 3-4 April 1974
Mark Stoelinga, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. D. Locatelli and P. V. Hobbs |
| | P1.8 | An overview of RAMS tornado simulations
William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| | P1.9 | Influences on the formation of a modeled tornado-like vortex
Brian J. Gaudet, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| | P1.10 | Axisymmetric Modelling of Tornado-Like Vortices with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
David S. Nolan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Almgren and J. B. Bell |
| | P1.11 | Cloud-to-ground lightning characteristics associated with tornadoes on 15 May 1998
Gary R. Huffines, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and R. E. Orville |
| | P1.12 | Computerized Mesoanalysis of a Severe Sprite-Producing MCS
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO |
| | P1.13 | Ted Fujita’s ‘unsung’ contributions as a forensic meteorology consultant
William H. Haggard, Climatological Consulting Corp., Asheville, NC |
| | P1.14 | High wind-producing convective systems over the Northern High Plains
Brian A. Klimowski, NOAA/NWS, Rapid City, SD; and J. Covert and M. R. Hjelmfelt |
| | P1.15 | Damaging Wind Gusts During the 10 November 1998 Squall Line over the Central US
Jeffrey Connors, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and D. Schultz |
| | P1.16 | An Evaluation of Two Microburst Prediction Indices and the Introduction of a New Index for Assessing Wet-Microburst Potential for the Central Florida Atlantic Coast in Support of the United States Space Program
Steven N. Dickerson, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and C. A. Miner and W. P. Roeder |
| | P1.17 | Early Microburst Simulations
Steven K. Krueger, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |
| | P1.18 | Downburst at Parana: A numerical case study
Hallak Ricardo, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and T. Valentin da Costa |
| | P1.19 | The Super Outbreak, April 3-4, 1974: "Forecasting" the Event Using Today's Guidance
Daniel W. McCarthy, Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and J. S. Kain and M. Baldwin |
| | P1.20 | Detailed WSR-88D Observations of a Cool Season Tornadic Bow Echo Event on 11 February 1999 over the Mid-Mississippi Valley Region: A Unique Tornado Event
Ron W. Przybylinski, Weather Forecast Office, St. Charles, MO; and G. K. Schmocker |
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| 10:00 AM, Tuesday
1 Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m.) |
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| 10:30 AM, Tuesday
1 WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| 11:15 AM, Tuesday
1 WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Meteorology and the Environment-The WMO Perspective Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
1 Conference Luncheon Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD |
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| 2:10 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Session 2 The May 3, 1999 Tornado Outbreak in Oklahoma and Kansas: What did we do well? What Have we Learned? What can we do better? |
| 2:10 PM | 2.0a | Introductory Remarks with Session Overview
Morris Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:15 PM | 2.1 | An Overview of the Event
Donald Burgess, NOAA/NWS/OSF, Norman, OK |
| 2:45 PM | 2.2 | The Forecasting Process
Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK |
| 3:15 PM | 2.3 | The Warning Process
David L. Andra Jr., NOAA/NWSFO, Norman, OK |
| 3:45 PM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:00 p.m.)
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| 4:00 PM | 2.4 | A TV Meteorologists' Perspective
Gary England, KWTV, Norman, OK |
| 4:30 PM | 2.5 | An Emergency Managers' Perspective
Gayland Kitch, Emergency Preparedness Manager, Moore, OK |
| 5:00 PM | 2.6 | Societal Impacts
Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK |
| 5:30 PM | 2.7 | Storm Intercept and Mobile Radar Observations
Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
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| 6:00 PM, Tuesday
1 Symposium Ends |
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| Wednesday, 12 January 2000 |
| 6:00 PM, Wednesday
1 Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday
1 AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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