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Sunday, 9 January 2000
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday 1 Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday 1 Conference Registration
Monday, 10 January 2000
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday 1 Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 January
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday 1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Monday 1 Fujita Banquet
Tuesday, 11 January 2000
	10:00 AM, Tuesday 1 Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-2:15 P.M.
	10:30 AM-11:15 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
	11:15 AM, Tuesday WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
	12:15 PM-2:15 PM, Tuesday 1 Conference Luncheon. Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
	3:30 PM, Tuesday 1 Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:00 P.M.
Wednesday, 12 January 2000
	8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday Session 1 Forecast, warning, and preparedness issues related to VORTEX
Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO
8:00 AM 1.1 A retrospective look at VORTEX: Implications about forecasting   Charles A. Doswell III, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK 8:30 AM 1.2 Impacts of VORTEX on operational severe storm forecasting   Richard L. Thompson, NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK 9:00 AM 1.3 VORTEX and the public: Does what we do matter?   Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
	9:30 AM-11:30 AM, Wednesday Session 2 Supercells and their environments
Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO
9:30 AM 2.1 Variability of "environmental" wind profiles and the role of boundaries during VORTEX   Paul Markowski, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 10:00 AM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.)   10:30 AM 2.2 Observations of Storm/environment Interactions   Albert E. Pietrycha, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 11:00 AM 2.3 The Morphology of Supercell Storms on 2 June 1995: Intriguing Observations of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Properties and Interactions with Pre-existing Mesoscale Boundaries   Matthew S. Gilmore, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
	11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday Remote Sensing Lecture
	11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday 1 Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday Session 3 Recent trends in storm-scale modeling
Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 3.1 Problems in supercell-simulating cloud models and suggested remedies   Jerry M. Straka, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 2:00 PM 3.2 Severe storm modeling after VORTEX: Opportunities and obstacles   Louis J. Wicker, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday Session 4 Tornadic/non-tornadic supercell discrimination
Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO
2:30 PM 4.1 Comparison Between Tornadic and Non-Tornadic Supercells   Roger M. Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA 3:00 PM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 P.M.)   3:30 PM 4.2 Some possible mechanisms for tornadogenesis failure in a supercell   David O. Blanchard, NOAA/NWS, Bellemont, AZ
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Session 5 Current theories of tornadogenesis
Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO
4:00 PM 5.1 Evidence for the role of barotropic processes in the rear flank downdraft in tornadogenesis   Jerry M. Straka, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. N. Rasmussen 4:30 PM 5.2 Does the hook echo instigate tornadogenesis?   Robert P. Davies-Jones, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK 5:00 PM 5.3 On tornadogenesis failure   Jeff Trapp, NOAA/NSSL and NCAR/MMM, Boulder, CO
	5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day
	6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday 1 Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday 1 AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 13 January 2000
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday Session 6 Observations of mesocyclones and tornadogenesis
Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO
8:00 AM 6.1 Tornadogenesis, maintenance, and demise in the Dimmitt, TX storm   Erik Rasmussen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO; and J. Straka 8:30 AM 6.2 Cyclic Tornado Formation in the 8 June 1995 McLean, Texas Storm   David C. Dowell, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 9:00 AM 6.3 Evolution of Low Level Mesocyclone Rotation: The 29 MAY 1994 Newcastle, Texas Storm During VORTEX   Conrad Ziegler, NOAA/NSSL/ERL, Norman, OK; and E. N. Rasmussen, T. R. Shepherd, A. I. Watson, and J. M. Straka 9:30 AM 6.4 Some surface observations in hook echoes obtained by a mobile mesonet   Paul Markowski, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Straka and E. Rasmussen
	9:00 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday 1 Exhibit Hours
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday 1 Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday Session 7 Observations and modeling of tornadoes
Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM 7.1 Observations of tornadoes using mobile Doppler radars   Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 11:00 AM 7.2 Modeling the Region of Strongest Winds in a Tornado   W. Steve Lewellen, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and D. C. Lewellen 11:30 AM 7.3 DOW Observations of tornado structure and evolution   Joshua Wurman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
	12:00 PM, Thursday 1 Symposium Ends

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