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Innovation and Collaboration: Exploring the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed

Posted in News, Radar on July 28, 2023 by Wes Moody.

The NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed provides a conceptual framework and a physical space to foster collaboration between research and operations to test, perfect and evaluate emerging technologies and science for NWS operations.

Tags: Featured, history, HWT, NOAA, NOAA NSSL, NWS, SPC, wfo

Gab at the Lab: Mike Coniglio

Posted in People News on September 29, 2015 by Tanya Schoor.

Mike Coniglio grew up in Buffalo, New York and brings great experience to our field projects and forecast model development.

Tags: FRDD, Gab at the Lab, NSSL, People News, SPC

Forecasters to evaluate sets of advanced weather models that can depict thunderstorms

Posted in Collaboration, R2O on April 22, 2015 by Susan Cobb.

Experiments designed to improve National Weather Service severe weather forecasts will be conducted in the 2015 Spring Forecasting Experiment from May 4 through June 5, part of the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) Experimental Forecast…

Tags: EFP, FACETs, Featured, Hot Items, HWT, SPC

Scientists re-visit the Tri-State Tornado

Posted in Talks and Articles on May 16, 2013 by Susan Cobb.

Scientists have re-examined the March 18, 1925 Tri-State Tornado was unusually severe, killing 695 people while it was on the ground for a record 219 miles crossing parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.

Tags: 1925, Issue: Spring 2013, NSSL, SPC, tornado, tri-state tornado

Worldwide diversity in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiments

Posted in Photo of the Month on May 9, 2013 by Susan Cobb.
Tags: HWT, Issue: Spring 2013, NOAA, NOAAHWT, NSSL, NWS, SPC

Summer Thunder 2011 hosted by NSSL

Posted in Collaboration, Forecast Research News on July 21, 2011 by Susan Cobb.
NWC lightning

NSSL co-hosted the Southern Thunder 2011 Workshop at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. last week along with the NOAA Storm Prediction Center and the University of Oklahoma.

Tags: Issue: July/August 2011, lightning, lightning prediction, lightning science, NSSL, SPC

NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiments – 2010

Posted in Collaboration, Warning Research News on March 26, 2010 by Susan Cobb.
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The cornerstone of the testbed is the annual NOAA HWT Spring Experiment that attracts 50-60 researchers and forecasters to Norman each year.

Tags: Hot Items, HWT, Issue: March 2010, NOAA, SPC, Spring Experiment

NSSL launches severe weather blog following deadly winter tornadoes

Posted in Outreach News on February 12, 2009 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL and the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) are collaborating on a blog created to facilitate communication about the impacts of selected severe weather events in the United States.

Tags: Hot Items, Issue: February 2009, NOAA Weather Partners, SPC

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