Conference Schedule
Registration
- If you are interested in attending the conference please complete the registration form.
- Registration will also be available on-site Wednesday and Thursday beginning at 7:45 am
Agenda
- Icebreaker with a Cash Bar: Tuesday, February 16: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Frazier Alumni Pavillion, Texas Tech Campus (Directions) - Day 1: Wednesday, February 17: 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
- Day 2: Thursday, February 18: 7:30 am - 5:00 pm
- Day 3: Friday, February 19: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Click on each day below to view the schedule in detail (as of
1 Feb).
A printable PDF schedule is available HERE.
| Tuesday Conference Schedule | |
| Time | Activity |
| 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Icebreaker with Cash Bar - Frazier Alumni Pavillion,
Texas Tech University (Directions) |
| Wednesday Conference Schedule | ||
| Time | Presenter | Topic |
| 7:30 am - 8:15 am |
Registration/Check-in |
|
| 8:15 am - 8:30 am |
Opening Remarks |
|
| 8:30 am - 9:30 am |
Keynote Speaker | |
| Dr. Kishor Mehta (TTU) | Lubbock Tornado Anniversary | |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Morning Break |
|
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am |
Alan Johnson (retired NWS) | Recollections of the Lubbock Tornado from a firsthand perspective |
| 10:20 am - 10:45 am |
Scott Gunter (TTU) | Shear features within a convective rain band of Hurricane Frances |
| 10:45 am - 11:05 am |
Anthony Reinhart (TTU) | A Case Study and Verification of WRF Simulations of Cold Pools on 11 June 2009 |
| 11:05 am - 11:30 am |
Patrick Skinner (TTU) | Observations within a Forward Flank Region of the May 23rd, 2007 Perryton, TX Supercell |
| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
|
| 1:00 pm - 1:25 pm |
Mike Umscheid (NWS Dodge City) | The Greensburg, KS tornado |
| 1:25 pm - 1:50 pm |
Dr. William Monfredo (OU) | Mapping Historical Tornadoes Across Texas and the Southern Plains |
| 1:50 pm - 2:15 pm |
Tanya Brown (TTU) | Development of a Statistical Relationship between Ground-Based and Remotely-Sensed Damage in Windstorms |
| 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm |
Keynote Speaker | |
| Dr. Chuck Doswell (OU, CIMMS) | The importance of data analysis in the forecast process | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Afternoon Break |
|
| 3:30 am - 5:00 pm |
Dr. Chuck Doswell (OU, CIMMS) | The importance of data analysis in the forecast process (continued) |
| 5:00 pm |
Evening break (optional
social event at Orlando’s
Restaurant - Directions) |
|
| Thursday Conference Schedule | ||
| Time | Presenter | Topic |
| 7:30 am - 8:15 am |
Registration/Check-in |
|
| 8:15 am - 9:15 am |
Keynote Speaker | |
| Roger Edwards (SPC) | Tropical cyclone tornadoes | |
| 9:15 am - 9:30 am |
Roger Edwards (SPC) | The Electronic Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Morning Break |
|
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am |
Keynote Speaker | |
| Tim Marshall (Haag Engineering) | Building damage issues in hurricanes, wind vs. wave | |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Ian Giammanco (TTU) | WSR-88D Observations of tropical cyclone low-level wind maxima |
| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
|
| 1:00 pm - 1:25 pm |
Danielle Nagele (TTU) | Climatology of cloud-to-ground lightning within landfalling tropical cyclones |
| 1:25 pm - 1:50 pm |
Chris Burling (TTU) | Total lightning observations of severe thunderstorms over Oklahoma |
| 1:50 pm - 2:20 pm |
Steven Piltz (NWS Tulsa) | The Impacts of Thunderstorm Geometry and WSR-88D Beam Characteristics on Diagnosing Supercell Tornados |
| 2:20 pm - 2:50 pm |
Dr. Frank Lombardo (TTU) | Thunderstorm characteristics of importance for wind engineering |
| 2:50 pm - 3:00 pm |
Larry Peabody (retired NWS) | University of the Incarnate Word presentation |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm |
Afternoon Break |
|
| 3:30 pm - 3:55 pm |
Dr. Michael Douglas (NSSL) | Evaluating a new low-cost radiosonde system for use in adaptive sounding networks |
| 3:55 pm - 4:20 pm |
Jessica Schultz (NWS Fort Worth) | WSR-88D signatures associated with one inch hail in the Southern Plains |
| 4:20 pm - 5:00 pm |
Keynote Speaker | |
| Dr. Pamela Heinselman (NSSL) | Exploiting NWRT PAR capabilities to improve temporal data resolution | |
| 5:00 pm | Evening break (optional
social event at Cagle Steaks
- Direction) |
|
| Friday Conference Schedule | ||
| Time | Presenter | Topic |
| 8:00 am - 8:40 am |
Keynote Speaker | |
| Dr. Christopher Weiss (TTU) | The VORTEX2 Project: Goals and Preliminary Results | |
| 8:40 am - 9:05 am |
Danny Cheresnick | A Cost-Effective Data Collection and Photogrammetric Research Project from 2009 |
| 9:05 am - 9:30 am |
Brad Charboneau (TTU) | Analysis of baroclinity within two tornadic supercells using high resolution in-situ StickNet data |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am |
Morning Break |
|
| 10:00 am - 10:25 am |
Dr. Donald MacGorman (NSSL) | Three-Dimensional Lightning Mapping Observations of Supercell Storms |
| 10:25 am - 10:50 am |
Trevor Boucher (TTU) | Observational Analysis of the Influence of Mesoscale Convective Vortices on West Texas Heat Bursts |
| 10:50 am - 11:45 am |
Keynote Speaker | |
| Don Burgess (retired NSSL) | Warn-on-Forecast | |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 pm |
Closing Remarks |
|
| 12:00 pm | ||
For additional information contact: info@lubsvrconf.org