Stories Tagged ‘SHAVE’

21Jan 2012

NSSL leverages new technologies in winter weather experiment

NSSL and collaborators will leverage new technology including dual-polarized radar observations and a precipitation reporting mobile device app to improve forecasts of winter weather during February and March.

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Valuable severe weather dataset collected by students

The NSSL/CIMMS Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE) are collecting hail, wind damage and flash flooding reports through phone surveys from now through mid-August.

Oklahoma City flooding

NSSL project now collects unique flash flood reports from the public

Flash floods are the number one hazardous weather-related killer in the US, yet they remain poorly observed. An NSSL project now collects data from the public on flash flooding, in addition to hail and wind reports.

SHAVE and NWS reports for a storm in Lac qui Parle County, MN on 27 July 2006

Valuable severe weather dataset collected by students

Over the past five summers, students have been making thousands of phone calls to collect reports of severe weather from the public as part of the Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE).