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Last Update 04/14/08 |
April 3, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Richard Henning, United States Air Force Reserve, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron On Thursday, April 3, the North Florida AMS held its final meeting of the chapter year. The meeting opened with Charlie Woodrum discussing “Today in Weather.” The event discussed was the famous Super Outbreak of April 3, 1974. The outbreak holds the record for most tornadoes in a 24 hour period (148). There were 6 F5s and 24 F4s in this outbreak extending from Alabama and Georgia all the way to Michigan. With this outbreak there were 315 fatalities and over 6 million dollars of damage done. After discussing the Super Outbreak, Charlie moved on with discussing upcoming events for the chapter. The NOAA P-3 will be visiting Apalachicola, FL on April 17th, and the chapter is planning to take part in this event by setting up a booth and informing 4th and 5th graders on careers in meteorology. The final social event of the year will be the chapter picnic at Tom Brown Park on April 19th. Food and drinks will be provided, however the members were encouraged to bring side dishes. Charlie also announced that the chapter will again hold its annual grads vs. undergrads flag football game at the picnic. With the vice president, Andy Latto, in Alaska for graduate research mission, Charlie moved on with describing the duties of the president and vice president to those in attendance for the upcoming election. Following Charlie, Kevin McKee, the treasurer, announced that the account balance was $1250. He announced the Mini-Golf tournament, which is to be held on April 8th at 7:00pm at Fun Station. Kevin stated that there will be team and individual play and the top 3 in each category will win a prize. The entry fee for the tournament is $5 and members will be provided with pizza and refreshments after their round. Kevin then described the duties of being the chapter treasurer which have included keeping track of the chapter funds, fundraising, and increasing membership. Kevin McKee passed it over to our secretary, Liane Claytor who thanked everyone for helping out with the four chapter bake sales through the year. She then described the duties of the secretary which have included the publicity committee and taking down the minutes for the chapter. After Liane, our Science and Education Chair, Alec Bogdanoff, spoke on the recent science fairs that chapter members had taken part in. Alec mentioned that the chapter has allotted $150 of the chapter funds to purchasing outreach materials with the chapter name and logo on them. He then talked about his role of being the chair of the Science and Education Committee and mentioned that the president should appoint someone for the next year who loves outreach. Last to speak prior to elections was Jimmy Taeger. Jimmy mentioned and rallied for support his chapter project of putting together packages for the homeless shelter in Tallahassee. Jimmy asked for donations of ponchos, umbrellas, socks, flashlights, toothbrushes, shampoo, soap, and sun block for the packages. After Jimmy finished speaking, the each nominated chapter office spoke briefly before the election of the 2008-2009 officers was held. There were 39 members voting in this year's election. Officers will assume their roles on May 1st. The results are available here. Following the election, Charlie introduced the speaker for the evening, Lieutenant Colonel Richard Henning of United States Air Force Reserve: 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (The Hurricane Hunters) who are stationed at Keesler AFB in Mississippi. Richard Henning is the Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer for the squadron and Mission Director onboard. He is a former graduate of Florida State, receiving his B.S. in Meteorology in 1994 and his M.S. in 1997. He spoke on his flight responsibilities and some of the interesting missions he had been on the C-130 as a hurricane hunter over the past few years. He also showed video of the hurricane hunters flying into Hurricane Katrina and most recently amazing onboard footage at night of the intensifying Hurricane Felix. With the end of Rich’s presentation, that closed the final meeting of the chapter year for the North Florida American Meteorological Society. For more information: Charlie Woodrum, northflams@gmail.com. Report submitted by Liane Claytor, Secretary. |
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