The Past Nine
Years of the Severe
Weather
Symposiums
First Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 11,1997
Chairman: Jeff Dobur
Brad Panovich
Opening Remarks: Dr. E. Gordon Gee, President of The Ohio State University
Dr. Lawrence A. Brown, Chair of the Dept of Geography
Dr. Jay Hobgood, Director of Atmospheric Sciences
Program Speakers:
John Distefano
Science Operations Officer
National Weather Service Forecast Office
Wilmington OH
Julie Dian
Service Hydrologist
National Weather Service Forecast Office
Wilmington OH
First Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 11,1997
J.R. Thomas
Director
Franklin County, Ohio Emergency Management Agency (EMA)
Fred Huestis
Catastrophe Coordinator
Nationwide Insurance
Lt. Col. David Smarsh
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Dr. Thomas Schmidlin
Chair
Dept of Geography –Kent State University
2nd Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April, 1998
Chairman: Jeff Dobur Brad Panovich
Head Coordinator: Mike Ryan
Conference Technician: Jens Blegvad Mike Dunlap
Coordinators: Bethany Pulsifer
Suzanne Cribb Monica Spinnenweber
Opening Remarks: Dr. Lawrence Brown, Chairman of
the Geography Dept
Jay Hobgood, Director, Atmospheric
Sciences Program
2nd Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April, 1998
Speakers: Keith Bedford, Chair,Dept of Civil Engineering,Ohio State
University
Suzy Davidson, Greg Tune, Red Cross
------------Mike Bettes
Broadcast Meteorologist
WSYX-TV Channel 6
Mike Davis
Broadcast Meteorologist
WBNS-10TV
Ben Gelber
Broadcast Meteorologist
WCMH-NBC4
2nd Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April, 1998
Ken Haydu
Meteorologist In Charge
National Weather Service
Wilmington OH
Bill Comeaux
Meteorologist In Charge
National Weather Service
Cleveland OH
Mike Sabones
Meteorologist In Charge
National Weather Service
North Webster, IN
2nd Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April, 1998
Herbert Stein
Professional Storm Chaser / Researcher
University Of Oklahoma
Dan McCarthy
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
Storm Prediction Center – National Weather
Service
Norman OK
3rd Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 30th, 1999
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Welcome and Introductions
Mike Ryan
Head Coordinator, Ohio Severe Weather Symposium
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Dr. Lawrence A. Brown
Chairperson, Department of Geography
Ohio State University
Dr. Jay Hobgood
Director, Atmospheric Sciences Program
Ohio State University
Robin Belton
President, Ohio State Meteorology Club
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Speakers:
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Dr. David Bromwich
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Ohio State University
"Real-Time Numerical Weather Prediction for Ohio using the PSU/NCAR
Mesoscale Model Version 5"
3rd Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 30th, 1999
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Dr. Harold Brooks
Head, Mesoscale Applications Group
National Severe Storms Laboratory
Norman, OK
"Issues in the Climatology of Tornadoes“
Robert Stewart
Former City Manager
Xenia, OH
"The Tornado at Xenia: The Aftermath and Steps Taken Towards
Rebuilding“
• John DiStefano & Greg Tipton
Science Operations Officer/Lead Forecaster
Wilmington, OH NWSFO
"A Case Study of the April 9, 1999 Southwest Ohio F-4 Tornado"
3rd Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 30th, 1999
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Steve Horstmeyer
Meteorologist, WKRC-TV Channel 12
Cincinnati, OH
“The April 9, 1999 Southwest Ohio Tornado“
Dan McCarthy
Mesometeorologist
Storm Prediction Center
Norman, OK
"A New Look at the Super Outbreak of 1974 Using Today's Models“
• Dr. Greg Forbes
Associate Professor, Department of Meteorology
Pennsylvania State University
State College, PA
"The 1974 Super Outbreak in Retrospect"
4th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 30th, 1999
• Welcome and Introductions
Robin Belton
Head Coordinator, Ohio Severe Weather Symposium
• Dr. Lawrence A. Brown
Chairperson, Department of Geography
Ohio State University
• Dr. Jay Hobgood
Director, Atmospheric Sciences Program
Ohio State University
4th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 30th, 1999
Speakers
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Dr. W. Steven Lewellen
Dr. David Lewellen
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
"Modeling the Strongest Winds in a Tornado“
Christopher C. Hennon
Graduate Student/ASP Webmaster, Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
"Using the OSU Weather Website for Severe Weather Monitoring
and Forecasting"
Melissa Barrington
Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
Atlanta, GA
"Severe Weather Operations at the Weather Channel"
4th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 30th, 1999
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Bob Davis
Meteorologist, National Weather Service
Moon Township (Pittsburgh), PA
"The Ohio Floods of 26-28 June 1998: An AMBER Perspective“
Joe Heim
Ohio River Forecast Center
Wilmington, OH
"Ohio River Forecast Center Operations“
Dan McCarthy
Storm Prediction Center
Norman, OK
"What was learned from the May 3rd Tornado Outbreak"
"What's new at the Storm Prediction Center"
4th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 30th, 1999
• Dr. Hugh Willoughby
Director, Hurricane Research Division
NOAA/AOML
Miami, FL
"Hurricanes in the Millennium: Getting
Ready for the Big One"
5th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 27th, 2001
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Welcome and Introductions
Greg Elsaesser
CO-Head coordinator, Ohio Severe Weather Symposium
Dr. Lawrence A. Brown
Chairperson, Department of Geography
Ohio State University
Dr. Jay Hobgood
Director, Atmospheric Sciences Program
Ohio State University
John Distefano/NWSFO Wilmington, Ohio
Science and Operations Officer
Xenia Tornado: "Some Perspective on the Severe Weather Episode over
Southwest Ohio on 20 September 2000"
5th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 27th, 2001
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John Distefano/NWSFO Wilmington, Ohio
Science and Operations Officer
Xenia Tornado: "Some Perspective on the Severe Weather Episode over
Southwest Ohio on 20 September 2000“
Tech Sgt. Chris Comte and Tech Sgt. Scott Thompson
Wright-Patterson AFB
"The 2000 Xenia Tornado: A Close-up Perspective
Dr.Jeffrey C. Rogers
Professor of Geography
Ohio State University
"Wintertime Flooding in the Ohio River Valley:
Atmospheric Controls from the Pacific“
5th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 27th, 2001
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Dale W. Shipley
Executive Director of the Ohio
Emergency Management Agency
"How Ohio EMA responds to a severe weather event“
John Montgomery
Central Ohio Severe Weather Network
"The Role of Amateur Radio During Severe Weather"
Dr.Harold Brooks
Head, Mesoscale Applications Group, Forecast Research and Development
Division
National Severe Storms Laboratory
"A Historical Look at Tornadoes: Deaths and Damage“
Rod Scofield
Senior Research Meteorologist Hydrology Team of the
NOAA/NESDIS/Atmospheric Research & Applications Division (ARAD)
"Satellite Characteristics of Flash Flood producing thunderstorms over the
Ohio Valley and Surrounding Area"
6th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 26th, 2002
Introductions
Jennifer Hogan - Morning Facilitator Opening Remarks
and Introductions
Jeff Dobur - Conference Co-Chairman, NWS Co-Sponsor
Dr. Jay Hobgood - Director, Atmospheric Sciences
Program
Dr. Lawrence Brown - Dept Chair, Department of
Geography
6th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 26th, 2002
Speakers
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Thomas Niziol
Science Operations Officer - NWSWFO Buffalo, New York "A Review of Operational
Forecasting for Lake Effect Snow"
Jeff Halverson
NASA / Goddard Space Center “NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission:
Four Years of Exciting Science Exploring Rain Processes, Lightning and
Hurricanes"
1stLt Stephen Early
88 WS/WES Wright-Patterson AFB
Pete Manousos
Science Operations Officer - Hydrologic Prediction Center (HPC) - Silver
Springs, MD "Overview of the Hydrologic Prediction Center"
6th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 26th, 2002
• Dan McCarthy
Warning Coordination Meteorologist - Storm Prediction Center –
Norman "Tornado Trends Across the United States 1950 - 2000“
• Dr. Scott Sheridan
Assistant Professor - Kent State University "Understanding,
forecasting, and mitigating heat-related mortality“
• Brad Grant
Meteorologist Instructor - WSR-88D Radar Warning Decision
Training Branch - Norman, OK "Warning Decision Making :
Issues and Training"
7th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 25th, 2003
Introductions
• Zack Schmiesing
- President, The Ohio State University Meteorology Club
• Dr. Jay Hobgood
- Director, Atmospheric Sciences Program
• Mike Ryan
- Chairperson, Ohio Severe Weather Symposium
7th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 25th, 2003
Speakers
• Dr. E. Philip Krider
-Professor of Meteorology, University of Arizona “Lightning”
• Tom Adams
-Development and Operations Hydrologist (DOH), Ohio River
Forecaset Center, Wilmington, Ohio
"Ohio River Forecast Center Implementation of the NWS
Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services“
• John Franks
-Forecaster - NWSFO Wilmington, Ohio “The Expansion of
the Fire Weather Program at NWSFO Wilmington"
7th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 25th, 2003
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Tom Niziol
-Science Operations Officer - NWSFO Buffalo, New York "SatelliteDerived Great Lakes Sea Surface Temperatures and the Impact on
Model Simulations of Lake Effect Snow“
Dr. Harold Brooks
-National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma "Estimating
Severe Thunderstorm Climatology Around the World“
Jeffrey Logsdon
-Science Operations Officer - NWSFO Northern Indiana "The 10
November 2002 F4 Tornado in Van Wert, Ohio"
Dan McCarthy
-Warning Coordination Meteorologist - Storm Prediction Center Norman, Oklahoma November 10 Severe Thunderstorm/Tornado
Outbreak
8th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
May 7th, 2004
• Kristen Mills - OSU Meteorology Club
President
• Dr. Morton O'Kelly - Chair, OSU Dept
of Geography
• Mike Ryan - Chair, Severe Weather
Symposium
8th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
May 7th, 2004
Speakers:
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Jim Kosarik - "Lead Forecaster" - NWSFO Cleveland, OH
Chris Mello - "Information Technology Officer" NWSFO Cleveland, OH "Utilization of the Cleveland NWS
Workstation ETA Model and Lake Effect Snow"
• Jeff Dobur - NWSFO Peachtree City, GA "Model-Derived
Precipitation Efficiency: An Operational Forecast Tool“
• Dr. Carolyn Merry - "The Department of Civil Engineering" -The
Ohio State University "Uses of Remote Sensing in Meteorology“
8th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
May 7th, 2004
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Tom Johnstone - "Information Technology Officer" - NWSFO Wilmington,
OH "Implementation of the Ohio Valley Mesonet“
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Dongjun Seo - "Office of Hydrologic Development" - NWS
Headquarters "Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Using WSR-88D: The
Hydrologic Story“
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Dan McCarthy - "Warning Coordination Meteorologist" - Storm Prediction
Center, Norman, OK) "May 2003 Series of Outbreaks: Comparisons to
Climatological Trends"
9th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 15th, 2005
• Welcome/Introductions:
• Jeremy Bower - OSU Meteorology Club
• Dr. Jay Hobgood - Director of
Atmospheric Sciences at OSU
• Dr. Morton O'Kelly - Chair, Department of
Geography
9th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 15th, 2005
Speakers
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Robin Gerhardt - "Meteorologist" - NWSFO Wilmington, OH “An
Examination of the January 2005 Flooding Across the NWS
Wilmington, Ohio Hydrological Service Area“
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Joe Heim - Ohio River Forecast Center - Wilmington, OH "Operational
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Bias in the OHRFC Region“
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Rick McCoy - Emergency Managment Director - Van Wert County,
Ohio "A Community Prepared, the Van Wert, Ohio Tornado“
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Harold Brooks - Head of Mesoscale Applications Group - National Severe
Storms Laboratory “Climatological Aspects Of Convective Parameters
From The NCAR/NCEP Reanalysis”
9th Annual Severe Weather
Symposium
April 15th, 2005
• Dr. Louis Uccellini - Director of National Centers for
Environmental Prediction “NCEP Update“
• Dan McCarthy - Warning Coordination Meteorologist Storm Prediction Center “40th Anniversary of the Palm
Sunday Tornado Outbreak and How It Changed Tornado
Preparedness”
• Dr. Josh Worman - Center for Severe Weather
Research “DOW observations of Tornadoes, Hurricanes
and Fires"