| Tuesday, 20 June 2000 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday
Workshop & Conference Registration |
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| Wednesday, 21 June 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-5:00 PM, Wednesday
Workshop on Understanding and Using the Imagery in Satellite Imagery (Separate registration required) |
Organizers: H. Michael Mogil, How the Weather Works, Rockville, MD; Brain Motta, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO
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| Thursday, 22 June 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-9:00 AM, Thursday
Session 1 Welcome to San Francisco |
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| 9:00 AM-10:40 AM, Thursday
Session 2 The evolution of data gathering in the 20th century |
Organizer: David M. Miller, WRFV-TV, Green Bay, WI
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| 9:00 AM | 2.1 | Data gathering in 1950 for independent TV forecasters
Harry A. Volkman, WFLD-TV, Chicago, IL |
| 9:20 AM | 2.2 | MESOWEST: Cooperative Weather Networks in the Western United States
John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt |
| 9:40 AM | 2.3 | The Evolution of Air Quality Data from Months-old Regulatory Reporting to Real-time Images on TV
Richard A. Wayland, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and T. S. Dye |
| 10:00 AM | 2.4 | The Future of Data Dissemination—Our Role as Broadcast Meteorologists in the 21st Century
Dave Jones, NBC4 WRC-TV, Washington, DC |
| 10:20 AM | | Morning Coffee Break
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| 10:00 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 10:40 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday
Session 3 How to transition from 1950s technology to the use of the satellites in upper-air analysis of the future |
Organizer: Terri A. Smith, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
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| 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
Session 4 Ahoc Committee on Re-certification |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-4:20 PM, Thursday
Session 5 "Futurecasting:" The Vendor's Perspective |
Organizer: Samatha Mohr, KTVK, Phoenix, AZ
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| 1:30 PM | 5.1 | Real-Time Radar Futurecasting Using Meteorologically Tuned Image Processing Technology: An Overview of the FutureScan Product for Television
Gregory Wilson, Baron Services, Huntsville, AL; and R. Baron and M. Harthum |
| 1:50 PM | 5.2 | New Science, New Technology: On-site, Locally Initialized Numerical Weather Prediction Modeling. On-site, Locally Initialized Forecast Radar Reflectivity
Douglas P. Chenevert, DTN/Kavouras Weather Services, Burnsville, MN; and R. J. Sznaider |
| 2:10 PM | 5.3 | Local, Local, Local... Taking Futurecasting to the Micro-Level
Bill Boss, Weather Central, Inc., Madison, WI |
| 2:30 PM | | Afternoon Coffee Break
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| 3:00 PM | 5.4 | Futurecasting and How It Relates to Broadcasting
Joe Daleo, WSI, Billerica, MA |
| 3:20 PM | 5.5 | A system for development and display of a consensus of model data
Michael A. Steinberg, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and H. Margusity |
| 3:40 PM | 5.6 | A browser-based local street-level radar display system
Michael A Steinberg, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and H. Margusity |
| 4:00 PM | | Sessions end for the day
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| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
Welcome Reception |
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| Friday, 23 June 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Friday
Session 6 Tornado Outbreaks! The unusual and the powerful of 1999 |
Organizer: James W. Jaggers, WHBQ-TV, Memphis, TN
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | A model analysis of the Super Outbreak of April 3–4, 1974
Dan McCarthy, NOAA/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. Kain and M. Baldwin |
| 9:00 AM | 6.2 | Rare Great Basin Tornado, Salt Lake City, August 11, 1999
Sterling S. Poulson, KUTV TV, CBS, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. S. Toronto |
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| 9:30 AM-10:30 AM, Friday
Session 7 The Latest from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
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| 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, Friday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Friday
9 Panel Discussion: AMS Board on Broadcast Meteorology |
Organizer: David M. Miller, Chairman, Board on Broadcast Meteorology and WFRV-TV, Green Bay, WI
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| 10:30 AM | 9.1 | An update from the Broadcast Board
Jon E. Ahlquist, FSU, Tallahassee, FL; and J. W. Jaggers, M. H. McClellan, S. S. Mohr, S. S. Poulson, C. H. Preszler, T. A. Smith, and H. E. Tesch |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM-2:20 PM, Friday
Session 8 The Latest from the NWS (J. Baker)/ and FEMA's Project Impact (D. Jones) |
Organizer: Sterling S. Poulson, KUTV-TV, CBS, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 2:20 PM-5:05 PM, Friday
Session 9 Severe Weather and Forecasting |
Organizer: Dan McCarthy, NOAA/SPC, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Norman, OK
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| 2:20 PM | | Severe Weather and Forecasting Workshop: Creating and Understanding Probabilities
Dan McCarthy, SPC Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NOAA, Norman, OK |
| 3:20 PM | | Afternoon Coffee Break
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| 3:50 PM | | Severe Weather and Forecasting Workshop: Continued
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| 4:50 PM | | Sessions end for the day
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| 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Friday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Friday
Reception/Cash Bar (in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 7:00 PM, Friday
Conference Banquet (4th Floor of the Cathedral Hill Hotel: Hawaiian Luau Theme) |
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| Saturday, 24 June 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-11:00 AM, Saturday
Session 10 Dealing with the new "news" philosophy of "Local, Local, Local" |
Organizer: Cindy Preszler, KSDK-TV, St. Louis, MO
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| 8:30 AM | 10.1 | Building on the basics to serve TV and Internet broadcasting
Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather Inc, State College, PA |
| 8:55 AM | 10.2 | The Use of EAS in a Local Warning Area—A Success Story
Todd J. Shea, NOAA/NWS, La Crosse, WI; and D. Carr |
| 9:20 AM | 10.3 | Weathercasting 2000—A look at today's "On-Air" performances and what is expected of a broadcast meteorologist by newsdirectors
Mark A. Reynolds, WJHL-TV, Johnson City, TN |
| 9:45 AM | | Morning Coffee Break
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| 10:05 AM | 10.4 | Galileo, News Management and Politics
Ed Phillips, KNXV-TV, KTAR Radio, Phoenix, AZ |
| 10:30 AM | 10.5 | Unclouding The Issue
H. Michael Mogil, How The Weatherworks, Rockville, MD; and B. G. Levine |
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| 9:30 AM-1:30 PM, Saturday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 11:00 AM-1:30 PM, Saturday
Session 11 World Meteorological Organization |
Organizer: Michael H. McClellan, WMBD-TV, Peoria, IL
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| 1:30 PM-5:05 PM, Saturday
Session 12 Forecasting for television. Ego or science |
Organizer: Cindy H. Preszler, KSDK-TV, St. Louis, MO
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| 1:30 PM | 12.1 | What I Have learned
Robert T. Ryan, WRC-TV, Washington, DC |
| 3:00 PM | | Afternoon Coffee Break
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| 3:25 PM | 12.2 | Supercell Iowa Tornadoes of April 8, 1999
John B. McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA |
| 3:50 PM | 12.3 | Television Weathercasting: Science AND Ego
Kris M. Wilson, University of Texas, Austin, TX |
| 4:15 PM | 12.4 | TV Weather from a Science Museum
Jim Little, KOIN-TV, Portland, OR; and M. Nelsen |
| 4:40 PM | | Sessions end for the day
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| 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Saturday
Exhibit Hours |
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| Sunday, 25 June 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Sunday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 8:30 AM-11:10 AM, Sunday
Session 13 Using graphic displays of the models on air for localized forecasting. "Futurecasting," gimmick or science |
Organizer: Heather E. Tesch, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
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| 8:30 AM | 13.1 | A.D.O.N.I.S. and Ensembles in a Big, "Non-Technical" Market
Glenn Schwartz, NBC10-WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, PA |
| 8:55 AM | 13.2 | Telling the weather story better with models and animations
Sam Scaman, KMSP-TV, Chanhassen, MN |
| 9:20 AM | 13.3 | Navy weather and ocean charts available to the Broadcast Meteorologist via the open Internet
Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and J. R. Cannon and K. S. Evans |
| 9:45 AM | | Morning Coffee Break
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| 10:10 AM | 13.4 | Experimental probabilistic forecasts at the Storm Prediction Center
Dan McCarthy, NOAA/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. Schaefer |
| 10:35 AM | 13.5 | Future Weather Forecasting in the Year 2020—Investing in Technology Today: Improviing Weather and Environmental Predictions
Richard Anthes, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Schoeberl |
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| 10:00 AM, Sunday
Exhibit Program Closes |
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| 11:10 AM-3:40 PM, Sunday
Session 14 Weather events of the 90s help us to prepare for the future |
Organizer: Heather E. Tesch, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
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| 11:10 AM | | Concluding Remarks
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| 11:15 AM | | Conference ends
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| 11:40 AM | 14.1 | Highway Overpasses as Tornado Shelters: Fallout from the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma/Kansas Violent Tornado Outbreak
Daniel J. Miller, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and C. A. Doswell, H. E. Brooks, G. J. Stumpf, and E. N. Rasmussen |
| 12:05 PM | 14.2 | What should the media say when the government isn't saying anything and a hurricane is approaching?
Bryan Norcross, CBS-TV, New York, NY and WFOR-TV, Miami, FL |
| 12:30 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 2:00 PM | 14.3 | Applications of Environment Canada's text-to-voice system for alerting media and emgerncy officials of significant weather
Serge Besner, AES, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. Bukoski |
| 2:25 PM | 14.4 | El Nino, La Nina, drought, and hurricanes: Were the 1990s a preview of the near future?
Ants Leetmaa, NOAA/NCEP/CPC, Washington, DC |
| 2:50 PM | 14.5 | The KWTV warning process
Gary A. England, KWTV, Oklahoma City, OK |
| 3:15 PM | 14.6 | A hole in the severe weather warning system: The limited access for the deaf and hard of hearing
Robert A. Weisman, Saint Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN; and V. T. Wood |
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