Monday 6 June begins the fourth and final week of our four-week spring experiment of the 2011 NSSL-NWS Experimental Warning Program (EWP2011) in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK.  Our distinguished NWS guests will be Bill Bunting (WFO Fort Worth, TX), Chris Buonanno (WFO Little Rock, AR), Justin Lane (WFO Greenville, SC), Chris Sohl (WFO Norman, OK), and Dan Miller (WFO Duluth, MN).

Photo 1:  From the foreground…Chris Buonanno, Chris Sohl, and Pieter Groenemeijer.

Photo 2:  From the foreground…Bill Bunting and Justin Lane.

Other visiting participants this week will include Ralph Petersen (UW-CIMSS), Bob Aune (UW-CIMSS), Jordan Gerth (UW-CIMSS), Lori Schultz (UAH), Jim Gurka (NESDIS), and Pieter Groenemeijer (European Severe Storms Laboratory, Munich, Germany).

Today, Monday, is the time we spend training our visitors and getting them acquainted to the experimental products which they will be evaluating during real-time operations on Tue-Wed-Thu.  The first half of the day consisted of PowerPoint presentations from the various project PIs.  The second half of the day, they are perusing the experimental data on a displaced real-time case from 19 May 2010 over Central Oklahoma (High Risk supercell and tornado day).

Greg Stumpf, EWP2011 Week #4 Coordinator