Annual Meeting: Preliminary Agenda Now Open
JOM: Techniques and Thresholds of Significance for Using WSR-88D Velocity Data to Anticipate Significant Tornadoes
Significant tornadoes (EF2+) make up a very small percentage of the total United States tornado events, but produce the overwhelming majority of tornado fatalities. Identifying significant tornado events in a shortfused warning environment has been a particular focus of the United States National Weather Service’s severe weather program in recent years, with the goal of…
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JOM: Early Operational Successes of the University of Louisiana Monroe’s Polarimetric S-band Doppler Radar
In October 2016, the University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) began operating a polarimetric S-band Doppler weather radar to help close the low-level radar coverage gap across northern Louisiana by increasing the quantity of data sampled below 3.0 km AGL. Data are delivered in near-real time to local National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Forecast Offices to…
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