North Texas Chapter

Our Mission
"The development and dissemination of the knowledge of meteorology in all its phases and applications and the advancement of its professional ideals."

Membership
Membership in the North Texas Chapter is open to anyone who has an interest in meteorology, pays chapter dues, and agrees to abide by the chapter's constitution. Membership in the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association at the national level is encouraged, but is not required.

This Year's Chapter Meetings:

Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 (Note this is the fourth Tuesday of the month!)
Speaker: Caroline Harten
Topic: Military Weather: "Weather To Go"
Time: 7:00 pm CDT
Location: NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center/WFO Fort Worth/Dallas, 3401 Northern Cross Blvd. | Map
Caroline Harten served as a weather officer in the Air Force for eight years. Her military career started as a college student at Cornell University where she participated in Air Force ROTC while earning a Bachelor of Science in atmospheric sciences. Her first assignments were in Tucson, Arizona, and South Korea, where she experienced both regional and local forecasting, observing and aviation support. While still on active duty, she completed a Master of Science in meteorology with a focus on tropical meteorology at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and went on to become a typhoon forecaster at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Though her meteorological passion has long been focused on typhoons, her recent relocation to Texas has spawned an interest in inland severe weather. She enjoys teaching and sharing her weather experiences with others.
Caroline is also the CoCoRaHS Coordinator for Parker County.

Recent Chapter Meetings:
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Speakers: Jennifer Dunn and Ted Best
Topic: The May 2, 2007 North Texas Derecho

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Speaker: Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas State Climatologist, Texas A&M University
Topic: Texas Climate Change: Past vs. Future

Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Speaker: Nick Hampshire, WFO Fort Worth-Dallas
Topic: A Meteorological Review of the 6 March 2008 Convective Snow Event

Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Speaker: Eric Howieson, Regional Radar Program Manager
Topic: What's New and Planned in the NWS Radar Program

Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Speaker: Kristine Kahanek, KTVT-TV | Kristine's Web site
Topic: Kristine will conduct a tour of the station and discuss her recent book, "Katie and the Magic Umbrella," which she wrote to calm children's fear of storms by teaching them about weather.

Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Speaker: Nicholas "Nick" Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc.
Topic: Results from Vaisala's VHF total lightning mapping and long range lightning collaborations with the Dallas-Fort Worth National Weather Service Forecast Office and the National Hurricane Center

Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Speaker: Bernard N. Meisner, Chief, Science & Training, NWS Southern Region.
Topic: Including Uncertainty in Weather, Water and Climate Forecasts

Date: Thursday, September 23, 2008
Speaker: Patrick Ware, Pilot, Southwest Airlines.
Topic: Aviation and Weather: A Snapshot of Weather From A Pilot's Perspective

Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Speaker: Tim Marshall, Failure and Damage Consultant, Haag Engineering
Topic: 2007 Chase Cases - A Sometimes Comical Chase Season.

Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Speakers: Nolan Doesken & Henry Reges, Colorado Climate Center, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
Topic: CoCoRaHS: the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network.
We are encouraging our chapter members to participate in CoCoRaHS. Information is available on the CoCoRaHS Web site

Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Speaker: Jeff Evans, Senior Forecaster at the Storm Prediction Center
Topic: A Brief Overview of the SPC Mesoscale Analysis Page- What are all those parameters?

Date:Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Speaker: Roy Sedwick, Director of the Texas Floodplain Managers Association and Floodplain Administrator for the Lower Colorado River Authority in Austin
Topic: Reducing Texas Flood Deaths

Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Speaker: Dale Walker, Lockheed Martin
Topic: Field Trip to the New Lockheed Martin Flight Services Hub

Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Speaker: Jessica Schultz & Bernard Meisner
Topic: The 24 February 2007 North Texas Dust Storm: An Impact Weather Event

Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Speaker: Diane Cooper, Hydrologic Services Program Manager for NWS Southern Region
Topic: Flood Inundation Mapping, A New Way of Looking at Flooding

Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Speaker: Greg Story, West Gulf River Forecast Center
Topic: Do We Really Know How Much Rain Fell? (Or, Why Does the NWS Need CoCoRaHS Data?)

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