VORTEX2, the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment – 2 will focus on answering new questions about how, when, and why tornadoes form, why some thunderstorms produce tornadoes and others do not, the structure of tornadoes, and the relationship of tornadic winds to damage.
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Every PING counts! NSSL looks to local community to help with research
Are snowflakes fallin’ on your head? Are you getting pinged by ice pellets? NSSL is requesting observations of winter precipitation from volunteers in a 150km radius of Norman Oklahoma. More than 2,600 observations have been…
NSSL’s SMART-Radar team deployed to help improve debris flow warnings
The NSSL Shared Mobile Atmospheric and Research Teaching Radar (SMART-R) team is preparing for its fourth deployment as part of the NOAA and U.S. Geological Survey Demonstration Flash Flood and Debris Flow Early Warning System…
NSSL researchers receive prestigious awards from AMS
The American Meteorology Society (AMS) has announced the recipients of the 2009 AMS Awards including two NSSL researchers. Awardees will be honored at the AMS Conference January 11-16, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona. REMOTE SENSING PRIZE…
“Severe clear” hampered radar test until this morning
NSSL scientists have been waiting for severe weather to test algorithm techniques on Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) radars located in central Oklahoma. The pretty fall weather has not cooperated until early this…
NSSL works to create “drought-proof” water supply in Oklahoma
NSSL has joined the Arbuckle-Simpson Water Bank Project – an unprecedented effort to provide Oklahomans with the tools to create a “drought-proof” water supply. The Water Bank project will integrate and expand on existing weather,…
NOAA NSSL mobile dual-polarized Doppler radar captures Ike
The first dual-polarized Doppler radar data of a landfalling hurricane eyewall was collected as Hurricane Ike came ashore in Texas last weekend. The data was collected by a new mobile dual-polarized X-band radar (called NO-XP)…
NSSL hosts workshop to define future of storm research
NSSL is hosting the Advanced Weather and Society Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) Workshop: Beyond Storm-Based Warnings, Communication of Probabilistic Hazard Information. The workshop will be held next week, September 15-17, 2008 in Norman, Oklahoma. The NOAA…
NOAA NSSL’s new mobile radar will be tested by Hurricane Ike
NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory’s researchers will test a new mobile radar as Hurricane Ike makes landfall early Saturday morning. The dual-polarized X-band mobile radar built by NSSL and University of Oklahoma researchers is called…
CI-FLOW prepared for test from Hanna
North Carolina Sea Grant and NOAA’s multi-agency CI-FLOW (Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning) project prepared for a test of their monitoring and prediction system as Tropical Storm Hanna approached North Carolina on Friday.…