This is this year\u2019s EWP Thank You post, expressing our gratitude to the many participants of the Experimental Warning Program\u2019s 2010 spring experiment. This year\u2019s experiment was just as successful as the previous experiments, and it could not have been carried out without the hard work and long hours of our team of participants.\u00a0 EWP2010 ended on a real high note this year, with experimental warning operations for the 17 June 2010 Minnesota and North Dakota outbreak.\u00a0 All told, we issued 230 warnings and follow up statements on that one day alone, a record for EWP real-time operations.\u00a0 And the software worked better than ever – of course with most bugs finally being fixed by the end of the experiment.\u00a0 It seems like a century ago that we began operations on 12 April with the PARISE and CASA experiments.\u00a0 All told, we have nine weeks of operations, 3 more weeks than any previous years.<\/p>\n
The biggest expression of thanks goes to our two AWIPS\/WES gurus “on loan” from the NWS Warning Decision Training Branch, Ben Baranowski<\/strong> and Darrel Kingfield<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Their tireless efforts helped keep the ship running through thick and thin.\u00a0 Without their expertise to set up our simulated real-time NWS forecast office warning environment, localizable to any WFO in the country, as well as our WES archive cases, we simply wouldn’t have had an EWP2010.\u00a0 Major kudos!<\/p>\n These scientists brought their expertise to the experiment to help guide live operations and playback of archive cases for each of the experiments:<\/p>\n For the Phased-Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment (PARISE), we’d like to thank the the principle scientists, Pamela Heinselman <\/strong>(NSSL) and Daphne LaDue <\/strong>(CIMMS), as well as their support team of Ric Adams, Rick Hluchan, <\/strong>Heather Lazrus, Heather Moser, Jennifer Newman, <\/strong>Dave Preignitz, and <\/strong>Adam Smith<\/strong> (all OU, CIMMS, and\/or NSSL).<\/p>\n For the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) experiment was again led by Brenda Phillips<\/strong> (U. Mass.), Jerry Brotzge<\/strong> <\/strong>(OU), and Ellen Bass<\/strong> <\/strong>(U. VA). <\/strong> In addition, we had help from Don Rude<\/strong> (U. VA),<\/strong> David Westbrook<\/strong> (U. Mass.), Cedar League<\/strong> (Univ. Colorado \u2013 Colorado Springs), Rachel Butterworth<\/strong> (OU), Brendan Hogan<\/strong> (U. VA), and Kevin Kloesel<\/strong> (OU).<\/p>\n For the Multi-Radar\/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) application experiment, they included principle investigators Greg Stumpf <\/strong>(CIMMS\/NWS\/MDL) and Travis Smith<\/strong> (CIMMS\/NSSL), with additional help from CIMMS\/NSSL folks Kevin Manross<\/strong>, Kristin Kuhlman<\/strong>, Sarah Stough, <\/strong>and Steve Irwin. For the GOES-R Proving Ground experimental warning activities, including the Pseudo- Geostationary Lightning Mapping (pglm) array experiment, our thanks go to principle scientists Chris Siewert<\/strong> (CIMMS\/SPC) and Kristin Kuhlman <\/strong>(CIMMS\/NSSL), along with Geoffrey Stano <\/strong>(NASA-Huntsville), Eric Bruning <\/strong>(Univ. Maryland\/NESDIS), Wayne Feltz<\/strong> (UWM), Justin Sieglaff<\/strong> (UWM), Kris Bedka<\/strong> (UWM), Jason Brunner<\/strong> (UWM), Lee Cronce<\/strong> (UWM), Sarah Monette<\/strong> (UWM), Jordan Gerth<\/strong> (UWM), and Lindsay Richardson<\/strong> (CIMMS\/NSSL).<\/p>\n Next, we\u2019d like to thank the Weekly Coordinators for keeping operations on track during the experiment’s second phase (MRMS, GOES-R): Travis Smith, Kristin Kuhlman, Kevin Manross, <\/strong>and Greg Stumpf.<\/strong> We had much IT help from Kevin Manross, Jeff Brogden, Charles Kerr, Villiappa Lakshmanan, Vicki Farmer, Karen Cooper, Paul Griffin,<\/strong><\/strong>Brad Sagowitz, <\/strong><\/strong>and Greg Stumpf<\/strong><\/strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n The EWP leadership team of Travis Smith<\/strong> and David Andra<\/strong>, along with the other HWT management committee members (Steve Weiss, Jack Kain, Mike Foster, Russ Schneider<\/strong>, and Jeff Kimpel<\/strong>), and Stephan Smith<\/strong>, chief of the MDL Decision Assistance Branch, were instrumental in providing the necessary resources to make the EWP spring experiment happen.<\/p>\n Finally, we express a multitude of thanks to our National Weather Service and international operational meteorologists who traveled to Norman to participate as evaluators in this experiment (and we also thank their local and regional management for providing the personnel). They are:<\/p>\n Mark Bacon (WFO Wilmington, NC)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jim Caruso (WFO Wichita, KS)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jeff Cupo (FAA Training Center, Oklahoma City, OK)<\/strong><\/p>\n Mike Scotten (WFO Memphis, TN)<\/strong><\/p>\n Doug Cain (WFO Midland\/Odessa, TX)<\/strong><\/p>\n John Cockrell (WFO Amarillo, TX)<\/strong><\/p>\n Andrea Lammers (WFO Louisville, KY)<\/strong><\/p>\n Brian Montgomery (WFO Albany, NY)<\/strong><\/p>\n Ernie Ostuno (WFO Grand Rapids, MI)<\/strong><\/p>\n Jennifer Palucki (WFO Albuquerque, NM)<\/strong><\/p>\n Ryan Sharp (WFO Louisville, KY)<\/strong><\/p>\n Kathy Torgerson (WFO Pueblo, CO)<\/strong><\/p>\n Les Lemon (WDTB, Norman, OK)<\/strong><\/p>\n Steve Hodanish (WFO Pueblo, CO)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Ron Przybylinski (WFO St. Louis, MO) Bill Martin (WFO Glasgow, MT)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Steve Nelson (WFO Peachtree City\/Atlanta, GA)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n David Blanchard (WFO Flagstaff, AZ)<\/strong><\/p>\n Matthew Kramar (WFO Sterling, VA)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Ken Pomeroy (NWS Western Region HQ, Salt Lake City, UT<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n Darren Van Cleave (WFO Rapid City, SD)<\/strong><\/p>\n Rod Donavon (WFO Des Moines, IA)<\/strong><\/p>\n John Murray (WFO New York, NY)<\/strong><\/p>\n James Sieveking (WFO St. Louis, MO)<\/strong><\/p>\n David Zaff (WFO, Buffalo, NY)<\/strong><\/p>\n Frank Alsheimer (WFO Charleston, SC)<\/strong><\/p>\n Dan Darbe (WFO Peachtree City\/Atlanta, GA<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n Daniel Nietfeld (WFO Omaha, NE)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Pat Spoden (WFO Paducah, KY)<\/strong><\/p>\n Andy Taylor (WFO Norman, OK)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Angela Lese (WFO Lousiville, KY)<\/strong><\/p>\n Melissa Kreller (NWS Southern Region HQ, Fort Worth, TX)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Marcus Austin (WFO Tallahassee, FL)<\/strong><\/p>\n David Sharp (WFO Melbourne, FL)<\/strong><\/p>\n Many thanks to everyone, including those we may have inadvertently left off this list. Please let us know if we missed anyone. We can certainly edit this post and include their names later.<\/p>\n Greg Stumpf (EWP2010 Operations Coordinator)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is this year\u2019s EWP Thank You post, expressing our gratitude to the many participants of the Experimental Warning Program\u2019s 2010 spring experiment. This year\u2019s experiment was just as successful… <\/p>\n
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