FLASH — short for the Flooded Locations and Simulated Hydrographs Project — is now in the hands of NWS forecasters!
Forecasters now have richer data to predict fast-moving floods
Category: R2O
Make plans now to attend Second Annual Research Operations Nexus at NWA Annual Meeting
Given the success of the RON in Oklahoma City, a second meetup has been scheduled for the upcoming 2016 NWA Annual Meeting in Norfolk.
Forecasters to evaluate sets of advanced weather models that can depict thunderstorms
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…
2015 Spring Warning Project will look at new severe weather warning guidance
Several experiments to improve National Weather Service severe weather warnings will be conducted this spring in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) as part of the annual Experimental Warning Program.
CIMMS/NSSL researchers work to get West Texas lightning data in AWIPS in time for severe weather
An NSSL/CIMMS and TTU team pushed hard to get lightning products functional for potential severe weather on April 16 and were successful.
NSSL/CIMMS scientist to brief NWS forecasters
Kristin Calhoun (NSSL/CIMMS) will give an invited webinar to National Weather Service meteorologists and hydrologists on April 1, 2015, about current lightning prediction products in research and development at NSSL.
Multiple-Radar Multiple Sensor system developed at NSSL goes into NWS operations
Weather forecasters rely on an incredibly large amount of information when they make forecasts and issue warnings. A new system, activated by NOAA’s National Weather Service last week, quickly harnesses the tremendous amount of weather…
NOAA Technology Helps American Red Cross Respond Faster
In this record-breaking spring tornado season, emergency responders are saving precious hours when they count the most – in the immediate aftermath of a devastating storm.
Rotation tracks over Joplin, Missouri
Rotation tracks of the storms in southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri on May 22, 2011 produced by NSSL’s WDSS-II: On Demand system. Brighter reds and yellows show stronger rotation.
NSSL team completes installation of weather data system for FAA
A team from NSSL completed the installation of NSSL’s real-time Multiple-Radar/Multiple-Sensor (MRMS) system at the FAA William J Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, N.J. last week.