Abstracts
Full Conference Schedule HereThursday, February 29th, 2024
Featured Presentation - The Warn-on-Forecast System: Confident decisions made earlier
Patrick Burke – NSSL; WoFS Program LeadLeveraging WoFS and Mesoanalysis to Elevate Severe Operations
Dirk Petersen – WFO OAXThe July 26th, 2022 Tornadoes: A Case Study on Storm Evolution and WFO Messaging Strategy
Kalitta Kauffman – WFO GLDPredicting Tornado Pathlength and Longevity from an Environmental Wind Profile: Theory and Test Cases Using ERA5 Near-Storm Synthetic Proximity Soundings
Jonathan Garner – Former NWSAn Overview of Significant Wind-Driven Hail Events in the Great Plains
Zachary Hiris – WFO BOUThe 2023 June 21-22 Severe Weather Outbreak in Eastern Colorado
Paul Schlatter – WFO BOUAn Overview of the NWS National Water Prediction Service (NWPS) Transition
Melissa Smith – WFO UNRInsights and Experiences from The NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed
Jordan Thies – WFO GIDFeatured Presentation - Potential Uses of Dual-Pol Radar Data for Downbursts and QLCS Mesovortices
Charles Kuster - NSSLThe Era of Machine Learning in Convective Warning Decision Making is Here
Aaron Johnson – WFO DDCA Sample of ZDR Columns from Storms with Giant (4”+) Hail Reports using GR2ver3
Matt Bunkers – WFO UNRComparison of Weather Stations at Different Price Points
Melanie Augenstein – Metro State, Denver, COHigh Plains Cold Pools Obey a Theoretical Propagation Speed Equation
Nicholas Falk – Colorado State U.Extending the Lead-time of Downslope Windstorm Forecasts Using Machine Learning and Assessing Their Predictability
Casey Zoellick – Colorado Sate U.An Apparent Eastward Shift in United States Tornadic Activity/a>
James Miezejeski - U. of Northern ColoradoCold Pool Trains in the Colorado Plains
Christine Neumaier – Colorado State U.Utilizing Road Weather Information to Automate Traction Law Implementation Along Colorado’s I-70 Ski Corridor
Brenden Eckerman – Metro State, Denver, COFeatured Banquet Presentation – Climate Fingerprints on Severe Weather
Barb Mayes BousteadFriday, March 1st, 2024
How Hazard Services will affect convective warnings at the WFO in the future
Taylor Trogdon – GSL/CIRADynamic Ensemble-based Scenarios for IDSS (DESI): A new decision support tool for fast and meaningful interrogation of ensemble-based numerical weather data
Daniel Nietfeld – WIDS Division Chief; GSLThe NOAA Fire Weather Testbed and Related Activities at GSL
Daniel Nietfeld – WIDS Division Chief; GSLAnalysis of the 2022 Western Nebraska Fire Season
Darren Snively – WFO LBFPredicting Dust Storms on the High Plains: A Look at December 2, 2021
Amanda Wekesser – WFO GIDVariability and Trends in Rocky Mountain Snowpack
Michael Natoli – WFO CYS2019 Flood: Preparing, Predicting, and Responding to a Multi-Billion-Dollar Disaster
Wesely/Nicolaisen – WFOs GID/OAXKDP Detection for Microbursts: Case Studies From WFO Goodland’s CWA
Tyler Trigg – WFO GLDReplacing Missing Temperature Data and Its Effects on Monthly Rankings
Taylor Nicolaisen – WFO OAXUsing Satellite Imagery to Track Blowing X on the High Plains
Bill Line - NESDIS
Any questions about abstracts? Please contact HPChapterAMSNWA@gmail.com. Abstracts are due Monday, July 8th, 2019.