High Plains Chapter of the AMS/NWA

2017 Conference

Hosted by NWS Dodge City in Dodge City, Kansas

List of Presentations

• Testing the Boundaries of “Tornado Alley” Using Multiple Methods


• Improving Tornado Warning Decision Making through New Conceptual Models and Interrogation Techniques with WSR-88D Dual-Polarization Products - Part I


• Improving Tornado Warning Decision Making through New Conceptual Models and Interrogation Techniques with WSR-88D Dual-Polarization Products Part II


• A Comparison of Maximum Estimated Size of Hail (MESH) and the Hail Size Discrimination Algorithm (HSDA) to Evaluate Warning Hail-Size Predictions


• Incorporating GOES-16 Data into Convective Warning Operations into the High Plains


• The Christmas Day Mesoscale Wind Maximum with a Striking Resemblance to a Sting Jet


• 6-7 March 2017 Blowing Dust and Wildfire Event – General Observations of GOES-16 Imagery


• Expanding Weather Simulation at the Goodland Weather Forecast Office


• Assessing Risk of Kansas State Parks


• Providing Customers with Local Climate Information on Social Media


• An Analysis of Social Media Effectiveness of a Rural NWS Office


• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Deployment for Damage Assessment of the June 12, 2017 Tornado Outbreak in the Northern High Plains


• Costliest Hail Storms in Kansas History Strikes 19 June 1992


• Office Road Trips to Enhance Decision Support Services and Partnerships


• Forecasting Ice Accretion in Difficult Conditions: 13–16 January 2017


• The Cool Season Tornado Events of November 27th and Christmas Day 2016


• Pine Bluffs Wyoming Hybrid Severe Storm July 27, 2016


• Analysis of the Observed Oakley, KS Gust Front Converged Tornado on May 25, 2017


• Waking Up the Hard Way: The June 21, 2015 Nebraska Sandhills Damaging Hail Event


• Dodge City, Kansas Heat Burst of 14 May 2017: Examination of WSR- 88D Signatures and HRRR Performance


• The Global Climatic Effects of Plinian Eruptions