10th Annual High Plains AMS/NWA Conference
October 4-6, 2006
Dodge City, Kansas
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Wednesday,
October 4, 2006
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2:00
pm - 5:00 pm
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AWIPS /
IFPS Workshop, WFO Dodge
City Conference Room
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2:00
pm - 6:00 pm
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Conference
Registration at the
Dodge House
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Thursday,
October 5, 2006
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8:00
am - 8:15 am
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Welcome
and Opening Remarks,
David Floyd, High Plains Chapter President
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Session
I
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John
Stoppkotte, Session Chair
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All
Day
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Poster
sessions:
P.1 Exploiting Basin Customized Small
Basin
Shapefiles – Enhancing Operational Use by Creating Basin
Specific Background Maps
Mary-Beth
Schreck, National Weather Service, Wichita, KS
Kenneth R.
Cook, National Weather Service, Wichita, KS
P.2 Climatology of Drizzle over the
United
States and Canada
Dr. David
Schultz, CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL
P.3 Examination
of Possible Biases in the Kansas
Tornado Record: Daytime Versus Nighttime Observations
Samuel T. Lane, Fort Hays State University
Department of Geosciences
Dr. John Heinrichs, Hays
State University Department of
Geosciences
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8:15
am - 9:15 am
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Keynote Address:
Dr. David Schultz ,
“Cold Fronts: The Unknown Knowns"
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915
am - 935 am
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1.1 Red Flag Warning Climatology
across
Nebraska and Kansas
Todd Shoemake,
National Weather Service, Goodland, KS
Scott Mentzer,
National Weather Service, Goodland, KS
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935
am - 955 am
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1.2 A Climate Study of Above and
Below
Normal Temperatures Along with Longevity (Is There a Pattern)
Matthew Masek,
National Weather Service, North Platte, NE
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955
am - 1010 am
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Break
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1010
am - 1030 am
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1.3 The Utilization of the Graphic
Forecast
Generator (GFE) to Locally Apply CPC’s Week Two Forecast
Ray Burgert,
National Weather Service, Dodge City, KS
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1030
am - 1050 am
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1.4 A Synoptic-Dynamic Model of
Subseasonal
Atmospheric Variability
Edward Berry,
National Weather Service, Dodge City, KS
Klaus
Weickmann, Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences
Division, Boulder, CO
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1050
am - 1110 am
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1.5 Applying Fog Forecasting
Techniques
using AWIPS and the Internet
Rob Cox,
National Weather Service, Wichita, KS
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1110
am - 1130 am
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1.6 Verification of the WSR-88D Hail
Detection Algorithm in the WFO Cheyenne County Warning Area
Mike Weiland,
National Weather Service, Cheyenne, WY
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1130
am - 1150 am
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1.7 Flooding and Wind Damage after
Hurricane Katrina
Dr. William
Monfredo, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
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1150
am - 100 pm
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Lunch at the Dodge House
High Plains Chapter Meeting
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Session
II
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Dan Nietfeld, Session Chair
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100 pm
- 200 pm
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Keynote Address:
Dr. Erik Rasmussen,
“Arches and Blobs; Observational Radar Investigations and
Their Possible Significance.”
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200 pm
- 220 pm
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2.1 A Case Study of Two Left-Moving
Mesoanticyclonic Supercells on 24 April 2006
Christopher
Bowman, National Weather Service, Wichita, KS
Kenneth Cook,
National Weather Service, Wichita, KS
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220
pm
- 240 pm
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2.2 Convective Initiation and
Advection of
Severe Storms Across the Central High Plains
Scott F. Blair,
NWS Goodland, KS
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240
pm
- 300 pm
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2.3 The Impact of Gravity
Wave/Undular Bore
Dissipation on the June 22, 2003 Deshler and Aurora Nebraska Tornadic
Supercells
Aaron W.
Johnson, National Weather Service, Hastings, NE
Kurt M.
Buffalo, National Weather Service, Hastings, NE
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300 pm
- 315 pm
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Break
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315
pm
- 335 pm
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2.4 Investigation of Small Scale
Aspects of
Bow Echoes
Rebecca Adams,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (student competition)
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335
pm
- 405 pm
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2.5 Isentropic Analysis of a Dry Line
Bulge
and the “Real Weather” Implications
Mark L. Bogner,
KSNW-TV, Wichita, KS
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405
pm
- 425 pm
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2.6 The Role of the High Level Jet in
Warm
Season Western Kansas Hailstorms
Jonathon Finch,
National Weather Service, Dodge City, KS
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425
pm
- 445 pm
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2.7 An Investigation of the 26 July
2006
downburst near Spearville, Kansas
Jennifer
Ritterling, National Weather Service, Dodge City, KS
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450
pm
- 510 pm
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2.8 The Spotter Network
Al Pietrycha, National
Weather Service, Goodland, KS
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After
Hours
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600 pm
- 630 pm
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Cash Bar, The Dodge House
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630
pm
- 830 pm
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Banquet Dinner at The Dodge House
Featured Speaker: Jim Johnson,
"Reflections on 40 years of Weather Forecasting"
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Friday,
October 5,
2006
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Session
III
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Rick
Ewald, Session Chair
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8:15
am - 9:15 am
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Keynote Address:
Dr. Paul Markowski,
“The Initiation of Deep, Moist Convection (CI): A Review of
the Obvious and Consideration of the Not-So-Obvious Aspects of CI."
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915
am - 935 am
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3.1 An Assessment of Using the Mean
Field
Bias Correction to Improve Precipitation Estimates
Kenneth R.
Cook, National Weather Service, Wichita, KS
Maggie
Schoonover, National Weather Service, Wichita, KS
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935
am - 955 am
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3.2 Skywarn and Amateur
Radio: Old Methods Used in a Modern World
Seth Price, New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM (student
competition)
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955
am - 1010 am
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Break
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1010
am - 1030 am
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3.3 Uses of FX Collaborate
Sarah Johnson,
National Weather Service, Goodland, KS
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1030
am - 1050 am
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3.4 The Utility of Three-Dimensional
RADAR
Displays in Severe Weather Warning Operations
Daniel
Nietfeld, National Weather Service, Omaha-Valley, NE
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1050
am - 1110 am
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3.5 Improving Weather Forecast Office
Performance in the Polygon Warning Era
Kenneth R.
Cook, National Weather Service, Wichita, KS
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1115
am
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Closing Remarks and Student Competition Awards, David Floyd,
High Plains Chapter President
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Agenda revised September 29, 2006
