For those folks that want to learn more about forecasting severe weather. As a partnership between the Storm Prediction Center and the University of Oklahoma’s Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, we will be offering a tornado forecasting workshop series led by Lead Forecaster Rich Thompson. Sessions will be held on Tuesdays between 7:30 and 9:00 PM Central Time, starting February 3. The workshop will be conducted at the National Weather Center on the campus of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, and will be open to anyone who would like to attend. The workshop will also be streamed live online for those who cannot attend in person. Please see the advertisement below for additional details. Heres the current schedule: February 3rd – Sounding analysis and synoptic meteorology (lifted parcels, Q-G theory, etc.) February 10th – Severe storm ingredients (low-level moisture and lapse rates) February 17th – Severe storm ingredients (vertical shear and lift) March 3rd – Supercell and tornado conceptual models (plus composite parameters) March 10th – Tornado patterns (synoptic and mesoscale) March 24th – Convective mode forecasting (squall lines vs. discrete cells) April 7th – Tornado parameter climatology (spatial and temporal distributions of CAPE and shear) April 14th – Numerical models and statistical techniques (convective schemes and post processing) April 21st – Real-time forecasting exercise
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 09:09:01 +0000