Location: Greek Islands, 'Mid Town' Omaha, 3821 Center Street.
Guest
Speaker: Greg
Carbin.
Greg
is a Mesoscale/Outlook forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center.
Besides
issuing MCDs, watch status reports and the Day 1 convective Outlook, Greg
is active
in
visualization, fire weather, winter weather, storm chasing, weather map
pattern recognition and
he
produced the severe weather composite chart that is every storm chaser's
favorite web link.
Greg reviewed the top ten (in chronological order) weather related
events
that occurred in the U.S. during 2003.
Event #5: The Aurora, Nebraska record hail stone is presented at
the bottom of this page. There is a link to the satellite loop showing the
explosive growth of this storm at this location.
The January 3-4, 2003 Nor' easter was the first significant weather event
reviewed by Greg.
Chapter president, Jeremy Wesely thanks Greg for his informative
presentation.
Business meeting portion of the meeting.
35 members were present at this meeting on a cold December evening.
Several UNL AMS Chapter members were also in attendance at the meeting
The meeting ended shortly before 10 PM and waiting outside was a
brief snow shower.
UNL AMS Chapter member Kelly Faltin grimaces as the cold winds blow
snow into his face
as the UNL student group started their trip back to Lincoln.
Greg listed 10 top events (in chronological order) for Year 2003. # 5 was the Nebraska Hail Storm
which produced the record hail stone.
Quick Time Movie link: (right click on the link and
save then open up in QuickTime.
GOES
high resolution satellite image loop of the explosive development of the
hail storm
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