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What:The 30th Annual Fermilab Tornado and Severe Storm Seminar with WGN TV's Tom Skilling
When: Saturday April 10
Two shows from 12:00 noon to 4:30 p.m. and repeated from 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Where: Fermi National Laboratory, Ramsey Auditorium
Fermilab is approximately 40 miles west of Chicago in Batavia. The entrance is off Kirk Road, about 3 miles north of I-88. Directions to the Fermilab National Laboratory at the Ramsey Auditorium.
Admission is free and seating is first come, first served. NO tickets are necessary! We're looking forward to seeing you!
Who: This year's speakers include:
Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director of the National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
Weather Radios
The folks at Midland Weather Radios are making 20 NOAA Weather Radios available for us to give away at this Saturday's Fermilab Tornado and Severe Storms Seminars. Our friends and colleagues at Lake County Skywarn will choose the winners and we'll announce them after each session's mid-break. Don't forget to sign up at the Lake County Skywarn desk in the lobby of the Ramsey Auditorium Saturday morning to have a chance to win a Midland NOAA Weather Radio. Also, check with your Walgreen's store to purchase a Midland NOAA Radio at reduced cost!
SPEAKER INFORMATION FOR THIS YEAR'S FERMILAB GUESTS
Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director of the National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP):
Revolutionary advances in computer modeling offer much earlier warning of nature's most extreme severe weather outbreaks
Exteme weather, including tornado and severe thunderstorm outbreaks, are being predicted with greater accuracy and days in advance of their onset with greater accuracy than ever before. This past winter's record-breaking snowstorms in the South and East are perfect examples--as was the the Super Outbreak of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms of February 2008. Residents of the affected regions received the heads up not only that these storms were on the way but also that they would hit with an intensity, in some cases, greater than any on record. The ability of this country's weather forecast system to do this has been decades in the making and is the product of a revolution in the ability to observe the atmosphere better than ever before--but also in stunning increases in the sophistication of computer models which assist human forecasters in anticipating storm outbreaks. Today's weather forecast models run on supercomputers which are able to perform 70 trillion mathematical calculations per second--a speed, according to computer scientists, likely to double or triple in the next few years---have played a huge role. There may be no one who's observed or played an active role in directing this revolution in weather forecasting than Dr. Louis Uccellini who, as director of the National Weather Servicve's National Centers of Environment Prediction--or NCEP, as it is known in the meteorological profession, oversees the operation of NOAA's Storm Prediction Center, the National Hurricane Center, the Environmental Modeling Center (which plays a key role in developing National Weather Service computer models), the Climate Prediction Center and NOAA operations--the agency charged with the actual production of the U.S. government's computer model forecasts. Dr.Uccellini will discuss and take questions covering the remarkable a dvances in our ability to predict and anticipate extreme weather in all its forms.
Dr. Mary Ann Cooper MD, University of Illinois Chicago
Lightning: Take it seriously!
There is no one who has see the devastating effects of lightning on the human body more clearly than Dr.Mary Ann Cooper, MD. As a practicing physician and one who has treated and worked with lightning strike victims for years while authoring numerous papers outlining the hazard posed in this country and elsewhere by lightning, Dr. Cooper says there is simply no question that being stuck by lightning is a life-altering event and one to be avoided at all costs. She has joined us on the Fermilab stage for more than a decade to talk about lightning and has appeared on programs focusing on lightning which have aired on WGN, the Discovery Channel, The Weather Channel and many others while authoring scores of papers and articles on the subject. Her website offers a wealth of information on the subject of lightning strike injuries: http://www.uic.edu /labs/lightninginjury
When: Saturday April 10
Two shows from 12:00 noon to 4:30 p.m. and repeated from 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Where: Fermi National Laboratory, Ramsey Auditorium
Fermilab is approximately 40 miles west of Chicago in Batavia. The entrance is off Kirk Road, about 3 miles north of I-88. Directions to the Fermilab National Laboratory at the Ramsey Auditorium.
Admission is free and seating is first come, first served. NO tickets are necessary! We're looking forward to seeing you!
Who: This year's speakers include:
Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director of the National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
- Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, University of Illinois Chicago
- Brian Smith, National Weather Service, Omaha
- Dr.Jim Angel, Midwestern Regional Climate Center
- Gino Izzi, National Weather Service, Chicago
- Ed Fenelon, National Weather Service, Chicago
- Jim Allsopp, National Weather Service, Chicago
Weather Radios
The folks at Midland Weather Radios are making 20 NOAA Weather Radios available for us to give away at this Saturday's Fermilab Tornado and Severe Storms Seminars. Our friends and colleagues at Lake County Skywarn will choose the winners and we'll announce them after each session's mid-break. Don't forget to sign up at the Lake County Skywarn desk in the lobby of the Ramsey Auditorium Saturday morning to have a chance to win a Midland NOAA Weather Radio. Also, check with your Walgreen's store to purchase a Midland NOAA Radio at reduced cost!
SPEAKER INFORMATION FOR THIS YEAR'S FERMILAB GUESTS
Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director of the National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP):
Revolutionary advances in computer modeling offer much earlier warning of nature's most extreme severe weather outbreaks
Exteme weather, including tornado and severe thunderstorm outbreaks, are being predicted with greater accuracy and days in advance of their onset with greater accuracy than ever before. This past winter's record-breaking snowstorms in the South and East are perfect examples--as was the the Super Outbreak of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms of February 2008. Residents of the affected regions received the heads up not only that these storms were on the way but also that they would hit with an intensity, in some cases, greater than any on record. The ability of this country's weather forecast system to do this has been decades in the making and is the product of a revolution in the ability to observe the atmosphere better than ever before--but also in stunning increases in the sophistication of computer models which assist human forecasters in anticipating storm outbreaks. Today's weather forecast models run on supercomputers which are able to perform 70 trillion mathematical calculations per second--a speed, according to computer scientists, likely to double or triple in the next few years---have played a huge role. There may be no one who's observed or played an active role in directing this revolution in weather forecasting than Dr. Louis Uccellini who, as director of the National Weather Servicve's National Centers of Environment Prediction--or NCEP, as it is known in the meteorological profession, oversees the operation of NOAA's Storm Prediction Center, the National Hurricane Center, the Environmental Modeling Center (which plays a key role in developing National Weather Service computer models), the Climate Prediction Center and NOAA operations--the agency charged with the actual production of the U.S. government's computer model forecasts. Dr.Uccellini will discuss and take questions covering the remarkable a dvances in our ability to predict and anticipate extreme weather in all its forms.
Dr. Mary Ann Cooper MD, University of Illinois Chicago
Lightning: Take it seriously!
There is no one who has see the devastating effects of lightning on the human body more clearly than Dr.Mary Ann Cooper, MD. As a practicing physician and one who has treated and worked with lightning strike victims for years while authoring numerous papers outlining the hazard posed in this country and elsewhere by lightning, Dr. Cooper says there is simply no question that being stuck by lightning is a life-altering event and one to be avoided at all costs. She has joined us on the Fermilab stage for more than a decade to talk about lightning and has appeared on programs focusing on lightning which have aired on WGN, the Discovery Channel, The Weather Channel and many others while authoring scores of papers and articles on the subject. Her website offers a wealth of information on the subject of lightning strike injuries: http://www.uic.edu /labs/lightninginjury
