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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.
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This Year's Chapter Meetings:
Recent Chapter Meetings:
Date: Tuesday, March 19th
Date: Tuesday, February 19th
Date: Tuesday, January 15th
Date: Tuesday, December 18th
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Date: Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Date: Tuesday April 19th, 2011
Date: Thursday March 10th, 2011 Note this is not our typical day of the month!
Date: Tuesday February 15th, 2011
Date: Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Date: November 16, 2010
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Membership Application Form (pdf) © Copyright 2013 by North Texas Chapter of the American Meteorological Society. All Rights Reserved. Page revised: 21 May 2013
Date: Postponed until Tuesday, May 28th
Please Note: May 21st meeting has been postponed one week due to threat of severe weather!
Time: 7:00 pm CDT
Location: NWS West Gulf River Forecast Center/WFO Fort Worth/Dallas, 3401 Northern Cross Blvd. | Map
Note: Nomination and election of chapter officers will occur at the meeting.
Speaker: To Be Announced
Topic: To Be Announced
Date: Tuesday, April 16th
Topic: A Look Back at the Red River Valley Outbreak of April 10, 1979
Speaker: Greg Higgins, Chapter Vice President
Topic: Recollections of the Historic Mt. St. Helen's eruption (May 18, 1980)
Speaker: Stanley Christmas (retired), WFO Fort Worth/Dallas
Topic: The CASA DFW Urban Demonstration Network
Speaker: Greg Patrick, Science & Operations Officer, WFO Fort Worth/Dallas
Topic: Deadly Season: 2011 Tornadoes
Speaker: Ted Ryan, WFO Fort Worth/Dallas
Topic: Heat Bursts in North Texas
Speaker: Kevin Simmons, Austin College
Topic: The 2011 Joplin, MO Tornado: What Went Wrong, and How do we Fix it?
Speaker: Mike Smith, WeatherData
Topic: Immersion Simulation Training with NWS Partners
Speaker: Mark Fox, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, WFO Fort Worth/Dallas
Topic: Communicating Hazardous Weather Information: The Integrated Warning Teams of North and Central Texas
Speaker: Melissa Huffman, WFO Fort Worth/Dallas
Topic: A Walk Through COMET® Modules: (A Fun and Easy Going Tour of Where We Have Been)
Speaker: Tim Spangler, Director of the Cooperative Meteorological Education and Training (COMET®) Program
Topic: Extreme Weather: A Guide To Surviving Flash Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Heat Waves, Snowstorms, Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters
Speaker: Bonnie Schneider, CNN Meteorologist
Topic: Surveying the Joplin Missouri EF5 Tornado of May 2011
Speaker: Bruce Thomas, Midland Radio
Topic: Surveying the Joplin Missouri EF5 Tornado of May 2011
Speaker: Tim Marshall, Principal Engineer, Haag Engineering
Topic: Radar Quantitative Precipitation Estimation in Operational Hydrology – A Brief History in the NEXRAD Era and a Look Forward
Speaker: Professor Dong-Jun "DJ" Seo, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington
Topic: Tour of the NWS Center Weather Service Unit, FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center
Speaker: Doug Reno, NWS Center Weather Service Unit
Topic: Weather Support to the Space Shuttle Program
Speaker: Brian Hoeth, Emergency Response Meteorologist, NWS Southern Region Operations Center
Topic: The National Weather Service Southern Region ROC Pilot Project: Taking Regional Weather and Water Decision Support to a Whole New Level
Speaker: Tom Bradshaw, Chief, Meteorological Services Branch, NWS Southern Region
Topic: Social Media and the National Weather Service
Speakers: Rusty Billingsley, Chief, Science & Technology Services, NWS Southern Region and Mark Fox, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, WFO Fort Worth/Dallas
Topic: The Certified Consulting Meteorologist Program
Speaker: Bernard N. Meisner CCM, Chief Science & Training, NWS Southern Region
Topic: CSI: Meteorology, The Phantom Crashes
Speaker: Mike Smith, WeatherData Services, Inc.
Topic: The Central City Trinity River Project.
Speaker: Laura Mayberry Bacigalupo, Public Information Officer, Trinity River Vision Authority
Topic: Vertically Integrated Ice - A New Lightning Nowcasting Tool
Speaker: Matt Mosier, WFO Fort Worth/Dallas
Topic: Ozone Action Days and The Coalition for Clean Air in North Texas.
Speaker: Whitney Buehrle, North Central Texas Council of Governments
Topic: Reflections on VORTEX 2: The Second Year
Speaker: Tim Marshall, HAAG Engineering
Topics: A Constitution for Personal Flood Safety & Putting the Pieces Together -- The Future of Flash Flood Forecasting
Speaker: Jon Zeitler, Science and Operations Officer, WFO Austin/San Antonio
