2010 Conference Agenda
Click Here for the Preliminary Agenda (pdf)
Featured Talks
Roger Hill (Silver Lining Tours)
Tornado Tourism
Tim Samaras
TWISTEX tornado encounters from 2009
Yvette Richardson, Penn State University
Current Understanding of tornadic storms and VORTEX2
Davis Nolan, WKRN-TV, Nashville, TN
The Murfreesboro Tennessee EF4 of April 2009
Greg Carbin, Storm Prediction Center
Overview of Severe Storm Research and Forecasting at SPC
1980 Grand Island "Night of the Twisters"
A look back 30 years later
Radar Workshop with dual-polarization focus
Details on the Interactive Doppler Radar and Warning Workshop
We will be conducting a new and innovative Doppler radar and warning workshop this year. Attendees will be split into approximately 25 small groups/teams. Each team will have its own laptop loaded with a small program to create/issue/expire polygon warnings using the Gibson Ridge Radar software. The GR radar software will be configured to poll archived radar data as if it were live. A three hour period from an archived severe weather event will be sped up into a 90 minute warning session, with instructions and situational awareness given beforehand. Immediately following the warning session, we will review the event and teams will be provided statistics, such as POD, FAR, and CSI. We hope to see you there!
***If you own a laptop with GRLevel2 or GRAnalyst software, and you are willing to use it for the workshop, please email Chris Karstens (ckarsten@iastate.edu). Attendees without a laptop will be split into groups where laptops will be provided.
Call for Abstracts
Contact Bill Gallus (wgallus@iastate.edu) with any comments, questions, or suggestions regarding the 2010 conference agenda.