Session 14 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology

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Tuesday, 20 June 2000

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5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 20 June 2000


Workshop & Conference Registration

Wednesday, 21 June 2000

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7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Wednesday, 21 June 2000


Workshop & Conference Registration

8:30 AM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 21 June 2000


Workshop on Understanding and Using the Imagery in Satellite Imagery (Separate registration required)
Organizers: H. Michael Mogil, How the Weather Works; Brain Motta, Colorado State Univ.

Thursday, 22 June 2000

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7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Conference Registration

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Session 1
Welcome to San Francisco
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
8:30 AM
1.1
Welcome Remarks
David M. Miller, WFRV-TV, Green Bay, WI

8:40 AM
1.2
An overview of the San Francisco area
Brian Sussman, KPIX/CBS TV, San Francisco, CA

9:00 AM-10:40 AM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Session 2
The evolution of data gathering in the 20th century
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: David M. Miller, WRFV-TV
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
2.4A
Morning Coffee Break

10:00 AM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Exhibits Open

10:40 AM-11:30 AM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Session 3
How to transition from 1950s technology to the use of the satellites in upper-air analysis of the future
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Terri A. Smith, The Weather Channel
10:40 AM
3.1
Updated NWS AWIPS Requirements for GOES/POES Satellite Products
Donald G. Gray, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and P. M. Taylor and J. J. Gurka

11:05 AM
3.2
Enhanced visualizations of NOAA environmental data sets for the broadcaster
Allan C. Eustis, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Session 4
Ahoc Committee on Re-certification
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
11:30 AM
4.1
An Update From the Adhoc Committee on Re-Certification
Troy M. Kimmel Jr., KVET/KASE/KFMK Radio (AMFM, Inc.) and Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-4:20 PM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Session 5
"Futurecasting:" The Vendor's Perspective
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Samatha Mohr, KTVK
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
5.4
Futurecasting and How It Relates to Broadcasting
Joe Daleo, WSI, Billerica, MA

2:50 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

3:10 PM
5.6
A browser-based local street-level radar display system
Michael A Steinberg, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and H. Margusity

3:30 PM
5.3A
Afternoon Coffee Break

4:00 PM
5.6A
Sessions end for the day

3:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Exhibit Hours

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 22 June 2000


Welcome Reception

Friday, 23 June 2000

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8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Friday, 23 June 2000


Session 6
Tornado Outbreaks! The unusual and the powerful of 1999
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: James W. Jaggers, WHBQ-TV
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

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Friday, 23 June 2000


Session 7
The Latest from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
9:30 AM
7.1
Invited Presentation–Title to be announced
D. James Baker, Administrator of NOAA, Washington, DC

10:00 AM
7.1A
Morning Coffee Break

10:00 AM-1:00 PM: Friday, 23 June 2000


Exhibit Hours

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Friday, 23 June 2000


9
Panel Discussion: AMS Board on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: David M. Miller, Chairman, Board on Broadcast Meteorology and WFRV-TV
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
9.1A
Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:20 PM: Friday, 23 June 2000


Session 8
The Latest from the NWS (J. Baker)/ and FEMA's Project Impact (D. Jones)
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Sterling S. Poulson, KUTV-TV, CBS
1:30 PM
8.1
The ICE Forecast, Hot Stuff and Cool Ideas
John J. Kelly, NOAA/NWS, Washington, DC

2:00 PM
8.2
Become the Hero of your Local Community through FEMA's Project Impact
Dave Jones, NBC4 WRC-TV, Washington, DC

2:20 PM-5:05 PM: Friday, 23 June 2000


Session 9
Severe Weather and Forecasting
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Dan McCarthy, NOAA/SPC, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
2:20 PM
9.1
Severe Weather and Forecasting Workshop: Creating and Understanding Probabilities
Dan McCarthy, SPC Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NOAA, Norman, OK

3:20 PM
9.2
Severe Weather and Forecasting Workshop: Continued

4:20 PM
9.1A
Afternoon Coffee Break

4:50 PM
9.2A
Sessions end for the day

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Friday, 23 June 2000


Exhibit Hours

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Friday, 23 June 2000


Reception/Cash Bar (in Exhibit Hall)

7:00 PM-7:00 PM: Friday, 23 June 2000


Conference Banquet (4th Floor of the Cathedral Hill Hotel: Hawaiian Luau Theme)

Saturday, 24 June 2000

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8:30 AM-11:00 AM: Saturday, 24 June 2000


Session 10
Dealing with the new "news" philosophy of "Local, Local, Local"
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Cindy Preszler, KSDK-TV
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
10.4
Galileo, News Management and Politics
Ed Phillips, KNXV-TV, KTAR Radio, Phoenix, AZ

10:10 AM
10.5
Unclouding The Issue
H. Michael Mogil, How The Weatherworks, Rockville, MD; and B. G. Levine

10:40 AM
10.3A
Morning Coffee Break

9:30 AM-1:30 PM: Saturday, 24 June 2000


Exhibit Hours

11:00 AM-1:30 PM: Saturday, 24 June 2000


Session 11
World Meteorological Organization
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Michael H. McClellan, WMBD-TV
11:00 AM
11.1
WMO Communication Strategy
Taysir Al-Ghanem, World Meteorlogical Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

11:30 AM
11.2
Meteorology and the Media in the 21st Century
G. O. P. Obasi, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

12:00 PM
11.3
Lunch Break

1:30 PM-5:05 PM: Saturday, 24 June 2000


Session 12
Forecasting for television. Ego or science
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Cindy H. Preszler, KSDK-TV
1:30 PM
12.1
What I Have learned
Robert T. Ryan, WRC-TV, Washington, DC

3:00 PM
12.2
Supercell Iowa Tornadoes of April 8, 1999
John B. McLaughlin, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA

3:25 PM
12.3
Television Weathercasting: Science AND Ego
Kris M. Wilson, University of Texas, Austin, TX

3:50 PM
12.4
TV Weather from a Science Museum
Jim Little, KOIN-TV, Portland, OR; and M. Nelsen

4:15 PM
12.1A
Afternoon Coffee Break

4:40 PM
12.4A
Sessions end for the day

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Saturday, 24 June 2000


Exhibit Hours

Sunday, 25 June 2000

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8:00 AM-10:00 AM: Sunday, 25 June 2000


Exhibit Hours

8:30 AM-11:10 AM: Sunday, 25 June 2000


Session 13
Using graphic displays of the models on air for localized forecasting. "Futurecasting," gimmick or science
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Heather E. Tesch, The Weather Channel
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
13.4
Experimental probabilistic forecasts at the Storm Prediction Center
Dan McCarthy, NOAA/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. Schaefer

10:10 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

10:45 AM
13.3A
Morning Coffee Break

10:00 AM-10:00 AM: Sunday, 25 June 2000


Exhibit Program Closes

11:10 AM-3:40 PM: Sunday, 25 June 2000


Session 14
Weather events of the 90s help us to prepare for the future
Host: 29th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology
Organizer: Heather E. Tesch, The Weather Channel
11:10 AM
14.0
Concluding Remarks

11:15 AM
14.0
Conference ends

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 III, 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
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

12:55 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

1:20 PM
14.5
The KWTV warning process
Gary A. England, KWTV, Oklahoma City, OK

1:45 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

2:10 PM
14.2A
Lunch Break

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