Central Illinois Chapter of the AMS

14-15 October 2005, Champaign, IL

Thursday, October 13, 2005

  5:00-7:00 pm             Registration Opens

  6:00-8:00 pm             Icebreaker begins

 
Friday, October 14, 2005

  7:30 am          Registration Opens

  8:30 am          Welcome / Opening Remarks

8:45 am          SESSION I – Severe Local Storms Analyses

  8:45 am           THE JULY 13, 2004 PARSON’S PLANT TORNADO EVENT: ANALYSIS OF TORNADOGENESIS IN A HIGHLY UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT.  Pat Bak, National Weather Service, Lincoln, IL, and K. Huettl, and E. Shimon

  9:00 am           THE 12 MAY 2004 HARPER, KS TORNADO: ANALYSIS OF DOW RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF THE LOW LEVEL WIND FIELD.  Karen Kosiba, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and R.J. Trapp

  9:15 am           REAL-DATA NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF SEVERE BOW ECHOES OBSERVED DURING BAMEX.  Dustan Wheatley, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, and R.J. Trapp

  9:30 am           A PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF WSR-88D RADAR SIGNATURES SEEN IN THE F0 AND F1 CENTRAL ILLINOIS TORNADOES DURING THE RECORD SETTING 2003 TORNADO SEASON.  James Auten, National Weather Service, Lincoln, IL, and E. Goetsch

  9:45 am           BOW ECHOES DURING BAMEX: ASSESSING TRANSITIONS IN SURFACE WIND DAMAGE USING WSR-88D DATA.  Michael Kruk, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL, and R.M. Rauber, G.M. McFarquhar, B.F. Jewett, and R.J. Trapp

 10:00 am         Morning Break

 10:30 am         INVITED SPEAKER Tim Marshall, P.E., Haag Engineering, Dallas, TX

 11:15 am         SESSION II – Tornado Events of 2004: Forecasting and Response

 11:15 am          ILLINOIS TORNADO CLIMATOLOGY: 1950 TO PRESENT.  Jim Angel, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IL

 11:30 am          THE JULY 13, 2004 PARSON’S TORNADO EVENT: THE CONTRIBUTION OF EVOLVING PARADIGMS AND HUMAN FACTORS IN THE WARNING PROCESS.  Llyle Barker, National Weather Service, Lincoln, IL, and C. Miller and L. Quoetone

 11:45 am          THE JULY 13, 2004 ROANOKE TORNADO EVENT: THE WARNING RESPONSE PROCESS AT THE PARSONS COMPANY.  Chris Miller, National Weather Service, Lincoln, IL, and L. Barker, D. Eastman, and K. Coulter

 12:00 pm          RACE DAY TORNADOES: THE TORNADO OUTBREAK OF 30 MAY 2004.  Joseph Nield, National Weather Service, Indianapolis, IN, and C. Omitt

 
12:15 pm         Lunch (on own)

  1:45 pm          SESSION III – Unique Observations of Mesoscale Episodes

  1:45 pm           CELL MERGERS AND SPLITS: A REVIEW OF THE 19 MAY 2005 EVENT.  Mark Razter, National Weather Service, Chicago, IL, and P. Merzlock

  2:00 pm           THE USE OF AIRCRAFT WEATHER DATA IN CONVECTIVE FORECASTING.  Phil Kurimski, National Weather Service, Green Bay, WI, and P. Schumacher

   2:15 pm          MESOSCALE DYNAMICS OF THE NOVEMBER 12-13, 2003 MIDWEST CYCLONE WINDSTORM USING GOES TOTAL COLUMN OZONE AND WATER VAPOR   PRODUCTS.  John Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

  2:30 pm          Formal Poster Session /  Afternoon Break

3:45 pm          SESSION IV – Temperature Extremes and Winter Weather

  3:45 pm           HEAT WAVES AND COLD WAVES IN THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES DURING THE 19^TH CENTURY.  Michael Palecki, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL, and M.C. Kruk

  4:00 pm           A CLIMATOLOGY OF COLD WAVES IMPACTING KENTUCKY.  Stuart Foster, Kentucky Climate Center, Bowling Green, KY, and A. Littell

  4:15 pm           MODERN AND FUTURE EXTREME COLD AIR OUTBREAKS AS SIMULATED BY GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS.  Steve Vavrus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and J. Walsh, D. Portis, B. Chapman

  4:30 pm           ANALYSIS OF VERTICAL MOTIONS IN FINE SCALE PRECIPITATION BANDS IN WINTER CYCLONES USING WIND PROFILER DOPPLER SPECTRA.  Marcia Estrem, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, and R. Rauber, K. Knupp, J. Walters, D. Phillips, and B. Jewett

  7:00 pm          BANQUET

                        INVITED SPEAKER Dr. Paul Kocin, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

Saturday, October 15, 2005

 8:00 am          CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

 8:30 am          INVITED SPEAKER Dr. Morris Weisman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

9:15 am          SESSION V – Convection and Precipitation Extremes

  9:15 am           ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEM SCALE FEATURES OF THE 4 JULY 2004 BOW ECHO EVENT.  Kent Knopfmeier, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and R.J. Trapp

 9:30 am           SENSITIVITY OF CONVECTIVE INITIATION TO CAPE.  Adam Houston, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and D. Niyogi

 9:45 am           TELESCOPING MODEL SIMULATIONS OF HISTORICAL EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS.  Brooke Halvorson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and R.J. Trapp

 10:00 am          PRELIMINARY SIMULATIONS OF EXTREME CONVECTIVE RAINFALL EVENTS IN FUTURE CLIMATES.  Robert Trapp, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN

 10:15 am         Morning Break

 10:45 am         SESSION V – Continued

10:45 am          MULTI-SENSOR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES OF HEAVY RAINFALL ON A COUNTY SCALE IN THE MIDWEST REGION.  Nancy Westcott, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL

 11:00 am          THE FREQUENCY AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF EXTREME RAINFALL OVER THE TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN AREA.  Kenneth Blumenfeld , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, and R. Skaggs

 11:15 am          THE EFFECTS OF LAND-SURFACE PROCESSES ON SEVERE WEATHER AND THUNDERSTORM CHARACTERISTICS IN URBAN REGIONS.  Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, and P. Pyle, and B. Wolfe

 11:30 am          FEATURES AND IMPACTS OF THE 2005 DROUGHT IN ILLINOIS.  Jim Angel, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IL, and S. Hilberg

 11:45 am         ADJOURN