FREE Tornado Forecasting Workshop

[Belmer]

Hello KHOU friends,

My name is Blake Elmer and I'm currently a junior studying meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. As a student, I'm also an officer in the organization 'Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society'. Our organization has partnered with the SPC (Storm Prediction Center) and we are doing a FREE Tornado Forecasting Workshop Series with SPC meteorologist Rich Thompson.

This is expected to be a huge event as hundreds of people will be attending in Norman to these series, though, for those who aren't in Oklahoma and can't attend the series, we will be having a live stream on YouTube.

The current schedule follows:
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

Hope this is something that interest many on here. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment on here or message me. I will be leaving for Australia to do study abroad next week, so my internet access will be very limited come then.
Here is a picture for further details as well as the link that will direct you to the YouTube account in which it will be streamed live on.

[srainhoutx]

Thanks for posting this Blake. Perhaps some of our followers and members across N Texas and Oklahoma will be very interested in this!

[unome]

cool that it will be live-streaming on YouTube , do you have a link to the channel it will be on ?

[Belmer]

cool that it will be live-streaming on YouTube , do you have a link to the channel it will be on ?

Hi Unome,

The link below will (should) take you to our YouTube account.

http://tinyurl.com/redirect.php?num=TornadoForecasting

[Belmer]

As a reminder for those who are interested, our first of many series with the Tornado Forecasting Workshop begins at 7:30pm tonight. For those who can't attend live in Norman (which is probably the majority on here), we are streaming it live via this link:
http://live.som.ou.edu

For those who can't watch it live, you can go back and watch it at your own desired time from our YouTube account. Let me know if you have any questions.

[unome]

cool that it will be live-streaming on YouTube , do you have a link to the channel it will be on ?

Hi Unome,

The link below will (should) take you to our YouTube account.

http://tinyurl.com/redirect.php?num=TornadoForecasting

many thanks !