Seventh Annual High Plains Conference
October 8-10, 2003
Hastings, Nebraska

Wednesday, October 8, 2003

4:00 PM to 7:00 PM - Registration, National Weather Service Office, 6365 Osborne Drive West, Hastings, Nebraska (4 miles north of Hastings on U.S. Highway 281)

Thursday, October 9, 2003

7:30 AM to 8:00 AM - Registration, Wilson Mathematics and Computer Science Center, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska

8:00 AM - Welcome and opening remarks, Mike Moritz, National Weather Service, Hastings, Nebraska

8:15 AM to 9:15 AM- Keynote Address:  Tim Marshall, Haag Engineering, Dallas, Texas

        Session I - Session Chair, Mike Moritz, National Weather Service, Hastings, Nebraska.

9:15 AM - The 23 June McPherson-Brown Tornadoes...Supercell Life Cycle, Dan Mohr, National Weather Service, Aberdeen, South Dakota.

9:35 AM - The 24 June Regional Tornado Outbreak, Joshua M. Boustead, National Weather Service, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

        9:55 AM - Break

10:10 AM - A "Landspout Attack" Along the Kansas/Colorado State Line: A Case Study of the June 1, 2003 Event, Scott A. Mentzer, National Weather Service, Goodland, Kansas.

10:30 AM - Tornadic Mini-Supercells in Central Nebraska on April 18, 2003 Associated With a Tight Upper Low, Jon Davies, Private Meteorologist, Wichita, Kansas

10:50 AM - The June 4, 2003 Tornado Episode in the Goodland Forecast Area: A Case Study, Mark T. Buller, National Weather Service, Goodland, Kansas.
 
11:10 AM - Severe weather warning application development at NSSL using multiple-radars and multiple sensors, Gregory J. Stumpf, Travis M. Smith and Kevin L. Manross, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma and Claire Thomas, Ecole National Superieure de Physique de Strasbourge, France

        11:40 AM to 12:45 PM - Lunch (Hastings College,  Sodexho Dining Hall)

12:45 PM to 1:45 PM- Keynote Address: Steve Weiss, Science and Operations Officer, Storm Prediction Center, Norman, Oklahoma

        Session II - Session Chair, John Stoppkotte, National Weather Service, North Platte, Nebraska

1:45 PM - Effective Severe Weather Decision Making at WFO Omaha - The July 5-6 2003 Severe Weather Event, Catherine Zapotocny, National Weather Service, Omaha/Valley, Nebraska

2:05 PM - Learning from a Null Derecho Event - The Convective Forecast for 08 July, 2003, Daniel D. Nietfeld, National Weather Service, Omaha/Valley, Nebraska and Rebecca Adams, National Weather Service, Omaha/Valley, Nebraska and Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

        2:25 PM - Break

2:40 PM - The July 5, 2003 Heat Burst Event in Northwest Kansas, David L. Floyd, National Weather Service, Goodland, Kansas.

3:00 PM - Boundary Layer Energy Potential (BLEP): An Operational Tool to Estimate Maximum Surface Wind Speeds in Convective Storms?, Bill Nichols, National Weather Service, Davenport, Iowa

    *Student Competition Entries
    Competition Chair: Rick Ewald, National Weather Service, Hastings, Nebraska

*3:20 PM - Understanding and Anticipating Concentrated Severe Convective Wind Events, Evan Kucera, Meteorology/Climatology Program, Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska and Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt Air Force Base, Bellevue, Nebraska
 
*3:40 PM  - Some Meteorological Aspects of the 6 July 2002 Flash Flood in Western Nebraska, James McCormick,  Meteorology/Climatology Program, Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska

4:00 to 4:05 PM - First day closing remarks and a few reminders for the evening, Mike Moritz, National Weather Service, Hastings, Nebraska

        4:05 to 4:45 PM - High Plains Chapter Meeting

6:00 to 6:30 PM - Cash Bar, The Courtyard, Imperial Mall, Hastings, Nebraska

6:30 PM - Banquet Dinner, The Courtyard, Imperial Mall, Hastings Nebraska. Featured Speaker, Tim Marshall, Haag Engineering, Dallas Texas, 26 Years of Tornado Chasing


Friday, October 10, 2003

8:00 to 8:15 AM - Remarks and reminders, High Plains Chapter President Mike Moritz, National Weather Service, Hastings, Nebraska

8:15 to 9:15 AM - Keynote Address: Al Dutcher, Nebraska State Climatologist, High Plains Climate Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.  Factors Required to Mitigate Short and Long Term Components of the Current Drought

    *Student Competition Entries
    Competition Chair: Rick Ewald, National Weather Service, Hastings, Nebraska

*9:15 AM -  The 2002 Ogallala, Nebraska Flash Flood Event: An Ensemble Forecasting Perspective,  David B. Radell, Meteorology/Climatology Program, Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska

*9:35 AM - A Case Study of the 14-15 February, 2003 Omaha Winter Storm, Nic Wilson, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
 
        9:55 AM - Break

*10:10 AM - STEPS Forecast Matrix, Jason Burns, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.

*10:30 AM - Bridging the Gap Between Education and Operations: A Look into the Learning Process From the Classroom to the Weather Office, Adam J. Prenzlow and Kelly Faltin, Meteorology/Climatology Program, Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska

    Session III - Session Chair, Daniel D. Nietfeld, National Weather Service, Omaha/Valley, Nebraska

10:50 AM - Adding Value to the Day 3 and Beyond, Jim Johnson, National Weather Service, Dodge City, Kansas.

11:20  AM - The Role of Human Forecasters in the NDFD Operational Environment, Kyle Weisser and Philip N. Schumacher, National Weather Service, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

11:40 AM - On Collaboration and Cooperation in the NDFD Era, Mike Lewis, National Weather Service, Hastings, Nebraska

    Noon to 12:10 PM - Student Paper Competition - Presentation of Scholarships

    12:10 PM to 1:15 PM - Lunch (Hastings College, Sodexho Dining Hall)

1:15 PM - An Examination of the June 22, 2003 Aurora, Nebraska Record Hail Event, Rick Ewald, National Weather Service, Hastings, Nebraska

1:35 PM - On Analysis Leading to Diagnosis, Jim Johnson, National Weather Service, Dodge City, Kansas

1:55 PM - Interactions of Small-Scale Boundaries on the Siren, WI Tornado Event, Jeffery Baker, Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin

2:15 PM - The 23 June 2002 Mc Pherson-Brown Tornadoes...Pre-storm Assessment and Boundary Interactions, David Hintz, National Weather Service, Aberdeen, South Dakota
 
2:35 PM - Estimations of CIN and LFC Relative to "Elevatedness" and Likelihood of Tornadoes, Jon Davies, Private Meteorologist, Wichita, Kansas

2:55 PM - An Infrasonic Detection Network on the High Plains, C. Bruce Entwistle, National Weather Service, Goodland, Kansas.

3:15 PM to 3:20 PM - Closing Remarks and Adjournment


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