Category Archives: Problems in Forecasting

United Airlines Flight 967 – Severe Turbulence, July 20, 2010

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin

Jeff Braun and Dan Lindsey NOAA/RAMMB CIRA/CSU ***(Also, please see addendum near the end of this message) The following are a sequence of GOES-13 visible images from 19:45 UTC on 20 July 2010 to 00:45 UTC on 21 July 2010. … Continue reading →

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West Texas Windstorm: 8 February 2009

Posted on February 18, 2009 by admin

Ken Pryor A convectively active late winter season over the Great Plains has proven fruitful for the assessment of the GOES-11 imager microburst risk product. During the evening of 8 February 2009, a line of convective storms tracked through eastern New Mexico … Continue reading →

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Flash Flood Season in the Rocky Mountain West – Just a Reminder

Posted on July 28, 2008 by admin

Jeff Braun This is just a brief reminder that it is monsoon/(FLASH) flood season here in Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West and adjacent High Plains.  While this region is no stranger to flooding conditions…particularly in the … Continue reading →

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Some Great Knowledge, Papers, and Training Materials That You May Have Missed

Posted on May 1, 2008 by admin

Jeff Braun Below are some links to, or copies of, some perhaps lesser known meteorological training materials.  Many of these have been born out of Aviation Weather programs either here in the USA through the military Air Force Weather Agency … Continue reading →

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Experimental Warning Program 2008 at NSSL starts April 28, 2008

Posted on April 29, 2008 by admin

From NSSL: April 28, 2008 NSSL is hosting the six-week Experimental Warning Program (EWP) Spring Program beginning today, 28 April 2008, in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. The mission of the EWP … Continue reading →

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