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Items 2007 NSSL co-hosts workshop in support of NWS severe weather warning needs
NSSL is co-hosting the 2nd Workshop on Severe Weather Technology for NWS Warning Decision Making July 10-12 at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK.
The workshop brings together National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office (NWS WFO) operational meteorologists, researchers, technology specialists, and management to facilitate the direction of research and development to support NWS severe weather warning needs.
Agenda items include updates on NWS operations and services and “Stories from the field” – where NWS WFO’s have the opportunity to share their biggest challenges, key needs and best and worst practices. NSSL offered updates on current research projects including the Hazardous Weather Testbed Experimental Warning Program, Phased Array Radar testing, and Gridded Warning research. The final day of the workshop will be focused on breakout sessions to identify potential pathways to advance severe weather warning decision-making and technologies, and to provide suggestions for the evolution of the Experimental Warning Program of the Hazardous Weather Testbed.
Background: The Workshop on Severe Weather Technology for NWS Warning Decision Making has its roots in the “Warning Decision Support System User Group Meetings” held at NSSL in the 1990’s. The workshop is co-hosted by NSSL, the NWS Warning Decision Training Branch, and the NWS Meteorological Development Laboratory.
Significance: Applied research guided by NWS users will improve the forecasting of impact weather such as severe thunderstorms and supports the overall goal to use science for informed decision-making.
7/16/07