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, April 20, 2010
Topic: The BarberWeatherWatch Web Site
Speaker: Dave Barber
Time: 7:00 pm CST
Location: WFO Forth Worth/Dallas - West Gulf River Forecast Center, 3401 Northern Cross Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76137 | Map |
Dr. Barber is a former weather forecaster, former teacher of meteorology and life-time weather nut. He is presently one of the pastors of the First Congregational United Church of Christ.
Although not presently engaged in meteorolgy for profit, he spends many hours developing software to download, decode, process, and display weather data. He also receives and post images from a lightning detection system, based in his home in Fort Worth.

While some of the analyses you will find on his Web site are similar to ones you might find on other sites, he makes an effort to include analyses based on his own techniques that give a somewhat different slant from what you will find elsewhere. Some of these analyses he has found useful (e.g., the Laplacian of surface equivalent potential temperature and surface geostrophic voritcity for severe wx forecasting); others are purely experimental (e.g., surface advection of potential relative humidity now available and the 300 mb diffluence and the maximum moisture transport plots to be added later).

Recent Chapter Meetings:
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Topic: A History of Tornado Warnings
Speaker: Charles A. Doswell, III

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Topic: The NWS Regional Operations Center in Fort Worth
Speaker: Tracy Howieson, Hydrologic Services Program Manager, NWS Southern Region

Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Topic: Storm Chasing, the Science and Beauty
Speaker: Martin Lisius, Chairman & Executive Director of the Texas Severe Storms Association

Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Speaker: Rebecca Miller, Chief Meteorologist at KDAF-TV
Topic: Tour of the KDAF-TV weather Center

Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Speaker: Brad Barton, Chief Meteorologist at WBAP NewsTalk 820 Radio
Topic: Changing the 'ology. How the communication of weather information is changing in the 21st Century.

Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Speaker: Tim Marshall, HAAG Engineering
Topic: VORTEX2

Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Speaker: Mark Fox, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, WFO Fort Worth/Dallas
Topic: Decision Support Services...The Future is Now

Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Speaker: Caroline Harten
Topic: Military Weather: "Weather To Go"

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

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