In lieu of a President's Message this month, I've asked for an article highlighting the NWA Community. Thanks to Nicole Van Every and Valerie Sharp for providing it. - Christina The National Weather Association has always enjoyed a rich tradition of collaboration and communication among its members, most notably at each Annual Meeting. Last December, the…
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2023 Met Sat and Freeman Award Recipients
Congratulations, Amanda and Evan! Amanda Wagner (she/hers) is a second-year master’s student at Villanova University studying the intersection of severe weather and social vulnerability. Her thesis research combines geospatial methods with social science and radar meteorology to identify communities vulnerable to tornadoes. She began her graduate studies after a few years in the professional world…
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JOM: Environmental and Radar-Derived Predictors of Tornado Intensity within Ongoing Convective Storms
Analyses of Doppler radar data and environmental parameters for 300 tornado cases are used to propose an alternative framework for tornado intensity prediction during pretornadic stages of ongoing storms, conditional on tornadogenesis. This framework is founded on the robust relationship (R² = 0.69) between pretornadic mesocyclone width and the EF rating of the subsequent…
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April 2023 President’s Message
President's Message In my message last month, I highlighted the new Strategic Plan and what we, your NWA Board have been doing so far this year. I also noted how we are looking forward to hosting you all for the Annual Meeting. Our abstract submissions process is open now so I thought I’d take this…
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