High Plains Chapter of the AMS/NWA

2018 Conference

Hosted by NWS Hastings in Hastings, Nebraska

List of Presentations

• Experimental Applications of the Statistical Severe Convective Risk Assessment Model for Central Plains Severe Thunderstorm Threat Assessment


• Air Force Weather Efforts on High Plains Forecast Challenges


• Tornado Visualization and Doppler Radar Analysis Project


• Thunderstorm Asthma in the USA: Are We Missing an Important Signal?


• The 1 June 2018, Gillette, WY EF3: A Post-Frontal Tornadic Supercell


• Mesoscale Patterns Supporting EF3-EF5 Tornadoes across Eastern Kansas


• Topeka Sounding-Based Evaluation of the Potential for Severe Convective Winds in Weakly Sheared Environments


• Day Cloud Phase Detection: The Future of DSS and Lightning Lead Time


• Transforming NWS Fire Weather Operations Through Innovative Tactical Fire Weather Decision Support Services


• Utilizing GOES-16 and the AWIPS Hot Spot Notification App for Impact-Based Decision Support of Wildfires: Initial Beta-Test Observations WFO Wichita


• Expanding Product Capabilities at the High Plains Regional Climate Center


• A Wind Speed Climatology for Drones


• The Utility and Workflow of Unmanned Aerial System (UASs) Based Damage Surveys: A Case Study of the 26 June 2018 Eureka, KS Tornado


• Is the Heat Index Efficient to Measure Heat Stress? A look Into an Alternative Index


• Advances in the Nebraska Mesonet Monitoring Program


• The High Plains Chapter of the AMS/NWA: 20+ Years and Still Counting


• Big Red ICS - Incident Command System at Memorial Stadium


• Perspectives on How Severe Thunderstorm Forecasting Has Changed Over the Past 20 Years of the High Plains Conference


• Personality in the Workplace


• Overview of the New Winter Weather Observing Program at WFO Goodland


• Best Practices and Insights from the April 2017 Blizzard


• Development of the Nebraska Department of Transportation Winter Severity Index


• State Departments of Transportation Perception of Winter Weather Forecasts and Impacts


• Correlation of Snow


• An Observational Study of Winter Weather Related Traffic Accidents in Nebraska


• An Observational Study of Snow-to-Liquid Ratio in North American Mid-Latitude Cyclones Using Subdaily Data