Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

The following links will take you to papers authored by present or past staff of the Lincoln NWS office. Some are in PDF format, and you will need to have a PDF reader to view them. Others are in HTML, and can be opened with any web browser.

Recent Published Papers and Conference Presentations
Research Title		Author(s)
Auten, J., 2020: Tornado Identifiction Challanges from Quasi-Linear Convective Systems (QLCS) during Spring 2019 in the NWS Lincoln Warning Area. 4th Midwest Bow Echo Workshop, NWS.,Mar. 5-6, Saint Louis, Mo.		James Auten
Auten, J., 2019: Impact Based Warning Tags, Tornado Emergency Usage and Resulting Impact-based Decision Support. 23^rd Annual NWA Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference, Nat Weather Assoc., Mar. 28-30, Ankeny, Ia.		James Auten
Barker, L., C. Miller, and D. Hansing, 2016: Building a Weather-Ready State: Embedding NWS Staff in the Illinois State Emergency Operations Center during the Record Setting Mississippi River Flood of December 2015/January 2016. 20^th Annual NWA Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference, Nat Weather Assoc., Mar. 31-Apr. 2, Ankeny, Ia.		Llyle Barker, Chris Miller, Darrin Hansing
Shimon, E., 2014: Investigating the Role of Wave-like Reflectivity Segments during the 17 November 2013 EF-4 Washington Illinois Tornado, Preprints, 27thConference on Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Nov. 2-7, Madison, Wi.		Edward Shimon
Barnes, M., 2012: January 26-28, 2009 Heavy Snowfall across Southeast Illinois. Central Region Technical Attachment 12-02, NWS, Kansas City, Mo.		Matthew Barnes
Barker, L., 2006: A Potentially Valuable WSR-88D Severe Storm Pre-cursor Signature in Highly Dynamic, Low CAPE, High Shear Environments, Preprints, 23rd Conference on Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Nov. 6-10, Saint Louis, Mo.		Llyle Barker
Shimon, E., 2006: Highly Localized Banded Snow - February 11, 2006: Review of the Forecast Process for a Missed Event, 15thAnnual Joint U.S./Canadian Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop, NWS/Environ Canada, Oct. 26, London, Ont.		Edward Shimon
Additional Forecast Issues
Examining North-South and West-East Oriented Lake Effect Snow Bands off Lake Michigan		Caleb Wood
Gravity Waves and Their Impacts on Convection		Patrick Vieck
Inland Intensification of Tropical Storm Erin		Curtis Malone
Historical Weather Events
The Mattoon/Charleston Tornado of May 26, 1917		Chris Geelhart
July 1936 Heat Wave		Chris Geelhart
The December 1989 Cold Wave		Chris Geelhart
The Great Sleet of February 1883		Chris Geelhart
March 16, 1942 -- Central Illinois' Last F5 Tornado		Chris Geelhart
April 3, 1974 -- Superoutbreak of Tornadoes (Illinois portion)		Chris Geelhart
April 19, 1996 -- Illinois' Largest 1-Day Tornado Outbreak		Chris Geelhart
November 17, 2013 -- Historic Tornado Outbreak		Chris Geelhart