Open House
March 23, 1998

(All shots from NSSL's WSR88D research RADAR [KOUN1])

Northeast, towards NWS Forecast Office/NEXRAD Operational Support Facility and OSF's WSR88D
Northwest, NSSL's retired research doppler (NRO)
Northward, NSSL/SPC main building in background, JMRF in foreground
Eastward, NWS balloon launch facility

Joint Mobile Research Facility

Les Showell prepares NSSL Mobile Atmospheric Observatory (NSSL 1) ... for the inevitable crowds (NSSL 1 and NSSL4)
Doppler On Wheels (DOW 2)
Balloon launch equipment
JMRF vehicles with NSSL's retired Norman research doppler (NRO) in the background
JMRF Team readying the balloon ... and away she goes!

National Weather Service's Norman Forecast Office

NOAA WeatherRadio display featuring Mark Trail
Norman Forecast Office's balloon launch facility
Balloon ready to go
Away she goes! (again)
Forecaster Megan Terry explains NWS Norman's forecast operations area
Forecaster Doug Speheger demonstrates new AWIPS system
Crowd views forecast operations area as Science and Operations Officer David Andras answers questions
SKYWARN Amateur Radio station in forecast area

NEXRAD Operational Support Facility

RADAR technical display (that's a 750,000 Watt Klystron tube in the middle)
OSF staff demonstrate NEXRAD radar
OSF radar displays

National Severe Storms Laboratory

Visitors view multi-media displays in lobby
Glidersonde display (closeup)

Storm Prediction Center

Visitors view the Storm Predicition Center operations area as Science and Operations Officer Bob Johns explains what the forecasters do
Forecaster Greg Carbin directs visitors to an SPC display

Affiliated orgs

Members of Air Force Weather Service from Tinker AFB ... attract a crowd
Oklahoma Climatatological Survey demos a Mesonet tower
Closeup of Mesonet tower
The Tinker Air Force Band Flying High entertains visitors
Oklahoma Department of Civil Emergency Management

Visitors

Students from Little Axe, Oklahoma return home

American Red Cross

Volunteers from the Cleveland County Chapter stand by to provide first aid
EmTRAC, the Emergency Training and Response Action Center
Interior of EmTRAC
John Perry of the Cleveland County Chapter explains the EmTRAC radio room

Volunteers

Volunteers from Moore Emergency Management provide much-needed traffic control
Information please
Tee Shirts, get your tee shirts heeyah!
Helpful members of the employees association
Tour guides await next assignment
Dr Schultz tests digital camera
Bob Owens, EmTRAC crew chief, keeps everything "spic and span"

All images by Peter Laws, NSSL/CIMMS