[Scan-DC] Hurricane hunters to visit Martin State Airport

[Alan Henney]

-----Original Message-----
From: Maryland Emergency Management Agency
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:38 PM
Subject: Hurricane hunters to visit


MEDIA ADVISORY


HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT TO STOP AT MARTIN STATE AIRPORT AS PART OF
EAST COAST TOUR TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS


MIDDLE RIVER, MD (April 30, 2007) – A Hurricane Hunter aircraft that
flies into dangerous storms will stop Wednesday at Martin State
Airport in Middle River as part of its five-day, five-city tour of the
East Coast to raise public awareness of the hurricane threat along the
Eastern Seaboard.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration WP-3 Orion
turboprop Hurricane Hunter is a key research instrument to help
monitor the characteristics of hurricanes. The planes last visited the
Baltimore area two years ago, also visiting Martin State Airport.

Bill Proenza, the new director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center,
Richard Knabb, PhD., senior hurricane specialist, and Michelle
Mainelli, hurricane specialist, will join the crew and scientists
aboard the aircraft. A press briefing is planned for 10 a.m. Wednesday
(on the tarmac next to the terminal?) at Martin State Airport, 701
Wilson Point Road, 21220. Scheduled speakers are Proenza; John W.
Droneburg, III, director, Maryland Emergency Management Agency; and
Dean Gulezian, director, NOAA’s National Weather Service Eastern
Region.

Photographers who would like to get pictures of the plane landing
should arrive at the airport no later than 9:15 a.m.

For more information about the event, please contact Ed McDonough at
410-517-3632 or 410-446-3333 (cell); or Katie Leahan at 410-517-3633
or 410-422-7348 (cell).


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 30, 2007

*** NEWS FROM NOAA *** MEDIA ADVISORY
NATIONAL OCEANIC & ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF
COMMERCE WASHINGTON, DC

Contact:        Greg Romano     (301) 713-0622
Dennis Feltgen (202) 253-6342

NOAA'S HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT TO MAKE STOP AT MARTIN STATE AIRPORT
NEAR BALTIMORE

NOAA's WP-3 Orion turboprop Hurricane Hunter aircraft will make a stop
at Martin State Airport near Baltimore as part of its five-day, five
city tour of the East Coast that begins on April 30, to raise public
awareness of the hurricane threat along the Eastern Seaboard.

Bill Proenza, the new director of NOAA's National Hurricane Center,
Richard Knabb, PhD., senior hurricane specialist, and Michelle
Mainelli, hurricane specialist, will join the crew and scientists
aboard the aircraft.

WHAT: Press conference on East Coast Hurricane Awareness Tour to raise
public awareness threat of hurricane threat along Eastern Seaboard.

WHEN:   Wednesday, May 2, at 10:00 EDT

WHERE: Martin State Airport, Baltimore, Md.

WHO: Bill Proenza, director of National Hurricane Center Dean
Gulezian, director of NOAA's National Weather Service Eastern Region

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