DIA ATC And FAA Safety And Operations
DIA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS AND FAA SAFETY AND OPERATIONS
REPRESENTATIVES ON COLORADO TORNADOES
NCAR Fleishman Building August 21, 2014
8:30 am Welcome and introductions ….Bruce Carmichael, NCAR/RAL
8:40 am ATC challenges in responding to tornado watches/warnings…… John Connolly, FAA
9:00 am Phenomenology of Colorado tornadoes … Morris Weisman, (pdf) (cellgrow.avi) (sqlits.avi) NCAR/MMM
9:30 am Colorado tornado events and the DCVZ …Ed Szoke, (pdf) NOAA/GSD
9:50 am Monitoring/tracking severe weather in vicinity of Denver airports …Rita Roberts, (pdf) NCAR/RAL
10:10 am Tornado observations from the Doppler On Wheels (DOW) radar… Josh Wurman, Karen Kosiba, (pdf) Center for Severe Weather Research
10:45 am NWS tornado watches and warning - policies and practices… Bob Glancy, (pdf) Nezette Rydell, NWS-Denver/Boulder
11:00 – 12:30 Open Discussion – Addressing ATC operational needs and response to tornado watches/warnings - John Connolly, Bruce Carmichael, Bob Glancy, Nezette Rydell
National Weather Service Denver, CO - weather.gov/Denver Heads up:
- Weather Story Graphic - NWS product, issued at 5:30 am and updated at 10:30 am
- Hazardous Weather Outlook - NWS product, issued at 5:30 am and updated at 10:30 am - below the weather story graphic
- Area Forecast Discussion - NWS product - issued 4 times daily and updated as needed
Monitoring:
- Radar - NWS web display -
- Numerous phone and computer apps are available for monitoring radar consider latency and smoothing
- NWSChat - chat room for NWS partners, customers, and media
- NWSChat Live feature is web based and requires no additional software
- Product notification for many NWS watch, warning and advisory products.
Alerting:
- iNWS - an experimental alerting service for core NWS partners
- Numerous media and private company alerting apps are available
- Most alert apps allow for multiple locations to be input for alerting and choices of what alerts to send.