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Forecasters now have richer data to predict fast-moving floods

Posted in News, R2O on September 28, 2018 by Emily Jeffries.

FLASH — short for the Flooded Locations and Simulated Hydrographs Project — is now in the hands of NWS forecasters!

Tags: Featured, FLASH, R2O

Make plans now to attend Second Annual Research Operations Nexus at NWA Annual Meeting

Posted in R2O on August 15, 2016 by Tanya Schoor.
Norfolk, VA

Given the success of the RON in Oklahoma City, a second meetup has been scheduled for the upcoming 2016 NWA Annual Meeting in Norfolk.

Tags: Hot Items, Meeting, NWA, RON

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

2015 Spring Warning Project will look at new severe weather warning guidance

Posted in R2O on April 21, 2015 by Susan Cobb.

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.

Tags: Emergency Managers, ENI, EWP, FACETs, Featured, GOES-R PG, Hot Items, HWT, lightning, lightning jump, NOAA, NWS, PHI, WRF

CIMMS/NSSL researchers work to get West Texas lightning data in AWIPS in time for severe weather

Posted in R2O on April 20, 2015 by Susan Cobb.

An NSSL/CIMMS and TTU team pushed hard to get lightning products functional for potential severe weather on April 16 and were successful.

Tags: CIMMS, Featured, Hot Items, HWT, lightning, LMA, LUB, NSSL, NWS

NSSL/CIMMS scientist to brief NWS forecasters

Posted in Collaboration, R2O on March 30, 2015 by Susan Cobb.

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.

Tags: CIMMS, ENI, Hot Items, lightning, lightning jump, lja, NSSL, NWS

Multiple-Radar Multiple Sensor system developed at NSSL goes into NWS operations

Posted in R2O on October 16, 2014 by Susan Cobb.

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…

Tags: forecasters, Hot Items, MRMS, NSSL, NWS, Radar Research News, warnings

NOAA Technology Helps American Red Cross Respond Faster

Posted in Forecast Research News, R2O on June 17, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

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.

Tags: Issue: June 2011, On Demand, rotation tracks, WDSS-II

Rotation tracks over Joplin, Missouri

Posted in Perspectives, Photo of the Month, R2O on May 24, 2011 by Susan Cobb.

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.

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NSSL team completes installation of weather data system for FAA

Posted in R2O, Warning Research News on November 17, 2010 by Susan Cobb.

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.

Tags: conus, Hot Items, Issue: November 2010, mosaic, precipitation, Radar Research News, rate, wdssii

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