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Valuable severe weather dataset collected by students

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on July 28, 2010 by Susan Cobb.

Over the past five summers, students have been making thousands of phone calls to collect reports of severe weather from the public as part of the Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE).

Tags: Hot Items, Issue: July/August 2010, SHAVE, students

VORTEX2 data collection wraps up

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on June 16, 2010 by Susan Cobb.

Preliminary numbers show VORTEX2 intercepted about 30 supercells, and 20 weak or short-lived tornadoes.

Tags: Issue: May/June 2010, vortex2

Tornado project enters second data collection phase

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on April 26, 2010 by Susan Cobb.
Probes I-70

The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment – 2 will begin the second year of data collection on May 1 and run through June 15.

Tags: Hot Items, Issue: April 2010, tornadoes, vortex2, Warning Research News

NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiments – 2010

Posted in Collaboration, Warning Research News on March 26, 2010 by Susan Cobb.
HWT

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 radar team returns from debris flow project

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on March 1, 2010 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL’s mobile radar team and the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R) have returned to Norman, Okla. following participation in the NOAA/USGS demonstration flash flood and debris flow early warning system project.

Tags: debris flow, Issue: February 2010, SMART-R

SoCal rain events captured by NSSL radar team

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on January 28, 2010 by Susan Cobb.
Mullally debris basin

NSSL’s mobile radar team and the SMART-R have captured seven heavy rain events in southern California.

Tags: debris flow, Issue: January 2010, SMART-R

Mobile radar collects data for debris flow experiment

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on December 28, 2009 by Susan Cobb.

NSSL’s mobile radar team and the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar arrived safely at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California at the end of November.

Tags: debris flow, Issue: January 2009, SMART-R

Mobile radar heads to California for debris flow experiment

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on November 25, 2009 by Susan Cobb.

December 1, NSSL’s mobile radar team will begin to collect data with the Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R) in southern California to help monitor rainstorms that may trigger dangerous debris flows.

Tags: debris flow, Hot Items, Issue: November 2009, mobile radar

NSSL’s mobile radar collects data on summer storms in the Colorado mountains

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on September 29, 2009 by Susan Cobb.

A team of NSSL scientists operated NOAA NSSL’s mobile X-band dual-polarized radar (NO-XP) in Colorado through September 20 to collect data and analyze storm characteristics in the Gunnison river basin.

Tags: flash flood, Hot Items, Issue: September 2009, mobile radar

SHAVE: Experiment collects severe weather data through phone calls

Posted in Research News, Warning Research News on July 10, 2009 by Susan Cobb.

Students working for the National Severe Storms Laboratory are spending their summers making phone calls to the public affected by severe thunderstorms.

Tags: damaging winds, flash flood, Hot Items, Issue: July 2009, WDSS-II

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