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2001<\/strong> A fire destroys the NSSL field research equipment storage facility including one of two mobile radars, a new lightning mapping array, a new mobile laboratory, a mobile mesonet instrumented vehicle, and many valuable instruments.<\/p>\n An NSSL scientist develops the Hazardous Weather Pager Program that sends lifesaving weather messages via pagers to subscribers with hearing disabilities.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> NSSL partners with researchers from around the world for the International H20 (IHOP) field project. The goal is to improve understanding of the process of convective initiation and boundary evolution, and learn what types of data are needed to make forecasts of thunderstorms and rainfall amounts more specific.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> NSSL completes Project CRAFT; successfully proving that real-time access to high-resolution radar data from multiple radars is technically possible and economically feasible.<\/p>\n NSSL participates in the Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortices Experiment (BAMEX) during May\u2013June 2003 to understand the processes and improve prediction of systems that produce severe winds.<\/p>\n The Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array (O-LMA) becomes operational and is used by NSSL researchers to investigate how lightning characteristics relate to updrafts, precipitation, and severe storm processes.<\/p>\n The Thunderstorm Electrification and Lightning Experiment (TELEX) begins the first year of a two year project to learn how lightning and other electrical storm properties are dependent on storm characteristics.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> It is the second year of TELEX.<\/p>\n NSSL seamlessly mosaics all 130 NWS and Department of Defense weather radars across the U.S. to provide the first high-resolution depiction of storms and quantitative precipitation estimation products from coast-to-coast in real-time.<\/p>\n Data collection with the Multi-function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) begins.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> NSSL SMART-R team operates the mobile radar in California to help forecast debris flows in areas burned by wild fires.<\/p>\n The NSSL-developed multi-sensor technology to improve severe weather warning decision-making will be moved into operations.<\/p>\n The first National Weather Festival draws 1000 visitors to tour NSSL facilities. 2006<\/strong> MPAR detects rotation, hail, microbursts and gust fronts well ahead of other radars due to its rapid scan capability.<\/p>\n NSSL and the SPC formally organize their collaboration towards improving severe thunderstorm and tornado watches and warnings in the new NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT).<\/p>\n NSSL leads the Coastal and Inland Flood Observation and Warning (CI-FLOW) Project to improve flood forecasts and warnings in coastal areas.<\/p>\n NSSL deploys a mobile radar to provide data for the Flash Flood and Debris Flow project in California.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong> NSSL researchers create the Meteorological Development Lab to invite collaboration and discussion on current projects being developed.<\/p>\n NSSL launches a new Web site to reach out to a wider audience including students, researchers, colleagues, media and the public.<\/p>\n The NOAA HWT identifies two interrelated areas of focus creating the Experimental Warning Program to target improving severe weather warning precision, and the Experimental Forecast Program to improve predictions of hazardous convective weather phenomena.<\/p>\n NSSL’s prototype Four-Dimensional Stormcell Investigator (FSI) designed to \u201cslice and dice\u201d storms is alpha-tested in three NWSFO’s and will be implemented at all WFO’s.<\/p>\n MPAR scans landfalling Tropical Storm Erin as it tracks over Oklahoma.<\/p>\n NSSL launches a \u201cVideo Highlights\u201d Web page.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong> NSSL operates the SMART-R in Arizona to observe the lifecycle of strong microbursts and assess their impact on the Salt River Project’s electrical power transmission and infrastructure.<\/p>\n NSSL’s SMART-R team transmits mobile radar data to the NWSFO in Oxnard, CA in real-time, aiding the office in their decision to issue a flash flood warning. 2009<\/strong> VORTEX2 collects data on a tornado in LaGrange, Wyoming using all of their mobile research equipment. It remains the best-sampled storm in history.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> NSSL\/CIMMS team win the prestigious Vaisala Award for their Outstanding Research Paper, \u201cRapid Sampling of Severe Storms by the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar.\u201d<\/p>\n NSSL deploys a mobile radar in the Southwest Colorado Radar Project to collect data on thunderstorm rainfall to better understand and forecast flash flooding caused by the Southwest Monsoon.<\/p>\n The Central Oklahoma chapter of the American Red Cross uses NSSL’s WDSS-II: On Demand system to assess tornado disaster areas much faster than before.<\/p>\n VORTEX2 continues and logs over 25,000 miles for each vehicle over the two-year project sampling 36 supercell thunderstorms and 11 tornadoes.<\/p>\n The Kimpel Symposium, a review of successful meteorological programs in Oklahoma including contributions made by Dr. Jeff Kimpel, and a look into the future of severe weather research, was held at the National Weather Center on Friday, June 18, 2010.<\/p>\n More than 5000 visitors attend the 6th annual National Weather Festival at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Highlights from NSSL’s history between 2000 and 2010. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":3274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[177,336],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-history","tag-nssl"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNSSL participates in the Pacific Land falling Jets Experiment (PACJET) along and offshore of the U.S. Pacific coastline to improve short-term forecasts and warnings of floods, damaging winds and other severe weather.<\/p>\n
\nThe Joint Polarization Experiment (J-POLE) tests the polarimetric capabilities of the WSR-88D in Norman, OK in an operational demonstration in collaboration with operational hydrologists, meteorologists and aviation users.<\/p>\n
\nThe NWRT Multi-function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) becomes operational.<\/p>\n
\nNEXRAD Program Management Committee approves taking first steps towards upgrading the national operational WSR-88D network to include dual-polarimetric capabilities developed by NSSL.<\/p>\n
\nNSSL celebrates its 40th Anniversary.<\/p>\n
\nStudents make phone calls to collect reports of severe weather from the public as part of the Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE).<\/p>\n
\nNSSL moves into the new National Weather Center six miles south of their previous location.<\/p>\n
\nNSSL introduces real-time MPAR data to forecasters in a simulated operational environment and receive positive feedback. The project is called \u201cPhased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment\u201d (PARISE) and is ongoing.<\/p>\n
\nNSSL adds a mobile X-Band dual-polarized radar (NOXP) to the armada of mobile research equipment.<\/p>\n
\nThe NWS in Little Rock, Ark. uses NSSL’s \u201cOn-Demand\u201d severe storm verification system to help with damage surveys and warning verification following the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak in the south-central U.S.<\/p>\n
\nNSSL embraces social networking by creating a Facebook and Twitter presence.
\nThe Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2009-2010 (VORTEX2) begins. It is the largest field tornado research project in history deploying ten mobile radars and 40 other instrumented vehicles. VORTEX2 is working to better understand how, when and why some supercell thunderstorms produce tornadoes and others do not. The project was designed to observe all scales of motion from the thunderstorm down to the tornado.<\/p>\n
\nAn NSSL team deploys a dual-polarized mobile radar and a team of researchers to support the 2010 Winter Olympic Games through their participation in Science and NOWcasting of Olympic Weather for Vancouver (SNOW-V10). It is a unique opportunity for international collaboration on the science of winter nowcasting in complex terrain.<\/p>\n