[Skywarn] OU Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society

[Lloyd Colston]

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The OU Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/OU-Student-Chapter-of-the-American-Meteorological-Society/212222899921?fref=photo>
announces

 that we have partnered with the Storm Prediction Center's Lead Forecaster
Rich Thompson to offer a unique series of workshops detailing the
meteorology of tornado forecasting! If you want to hear from a longstanding
professional about the process of making the forecasts for severe weather,
this is for you. Anyone is welcome to attend these free workshops, either
in person or online; see the link for more details!

Here's the current schedule:

February 3rd – Sounding analysis and synoptic meteorology (lifted parcels,
Q-G theory, etc.)

February 10th – Severe storm ingredients (low-level moisture and lapse
rates)

February 17th – Severe storm ingredients (vertical shear and lift)

March 3rd – Supercell and tornado conceptual models (plus composite
parameters)

March 10th – Tornado patterns (synoptic and mesoscale)

March 24th – Convective mode forecasting (squall lines vs. discrete cells)

April 7th – Tornado parameter climatology (spatial and temporal
distributions of CAPE and shear)

April 14th – Numerical models and statistical techniques (convective
schemes and post processing)

April 21st – Real-time forecasting exercise


Perhaps this would be of interest to Emergency Management and Skywarn folks.

Lloyd