Monday 7 April 2014 begins the first week of our two-week Multiple-Radar/Multiple-Sensor Best Practices experiment in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed at the National Weather Center in Norman, OK. This project is designed to include forecasters in the process of developing training for the Warning Decision Training Branch in how to best use MRMS severe weather products to improve warning decision making. Through a series of controlled experiments using archive and real-time data, forecasters will also help provide data to prove several hypotheses that MRMS products will provide better warnings for the public. Operational activities will take place during the week Monday through Friday.
For the week of 7-11 April, our distinguished NWS guests will be Kevin Brown (WFO Norman, OK), Pat Spoden (WFO Paducah, KY), Michael Dangelo (WFO State College, PA), and Jacob Beitlich (WFO Minneapolis, MN). The National Severe Storms Laboratory has generously provided travel stipends for our participants from NWS forecast offices nationwide.
Our support team also includes Matt Elliott, Darrel Kingfield, Jim Ladue, Bobby Prentice, and Greg Stumpf.
Here are several links of interest:
You can learn more about the EWP here:
NOAA employees can access the internal EWP2014 page with their LDAP credentials:
https://hwt.nssl.noaa.gov/
Here we go!
Gabe Garfield
CIMMS/NWS OUN
2014 EWP Operations Coordinator