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 >

26th Conference on Severe Local Storms

Manuscript

Poster

2013 Hollings Scholar Summer Project

As part of the Ernest F. Hollings scholarship program, McKenna W. Stanford (University of South Alabama) spent much of the summer with the staff at WFO Springfield. McKenna spent most of his time conducting statistical research of the three-ingredients method presented by Schaumann and Przybylinski at the 2012 Conference on Severe Local Storms. McKenna's hard work and dedication have revealed very promising results regarding the three-ingredients method for anticipating QLCS mesovortex genesis and rapid intensification. The results of McKenna's work have been presented to the WFO SGF staff, and were also presented to a diverse audience in Washington DC the week of July 29th.

A summary of McKenna's work can be found here!

Case Studies

29 June 2012 Ohio Valley/Mid-Atlantic Derecho (pdf)

13 October 2012 Willard, MO Tornado (webpage)