Tom Skilling's Wx-Seminar video available online

[Chad Cowan]

Video of Tom Skilling's Severe Weather Seminar is available online at http://wgntv.com/tornado. Handouts are also available for download. In case you can't tell, I was a little nervous!

Presentations:

•Dr. Joe Schaefer, Director, NOAA's Storm Prediction Center: "Hail: Size really does matter!".

• Ed Fenelon, Meteorologist in Charge-National Weather Service-Chicago: "The September 22, 2006 tornado touchdown on the Loyola University northside Chicago campus: How close much of the Chicago area came to a disaster.".

• Gino Izzi, Lead Forecaster, National Weather Service-Chicago: "The Chicago area's devastating derecho of August, 23, 2007. A look at one of the region's most damaging squall lines in decades with tree and powerline downing 80+mph wind gusts."

• Jim Allsopp, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service-Chicago: "Rare January 7 Mid-Winter tornadoes slam north suburban Poplar Grove and Harvard in Boone and McHenry Counties and devastate Kenosha County communities. How did they happen?"

• Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois-Chicago: "Lightning strikes and their life altering effects on a human body and how to protect yourself."

• John Jensenius, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service, Gray Maine: "Lightning: Understanding One of Nature's most underrated Killers.“

• Larry Ruthi, Meteorologist in Charge, National Weather Service, Dodge City, Kansas: "The monster Greensburg, Kansas twister of May, 2007. The killer storm which nearly wiped a town off the face of the earth---how it happened and how warnings for it were issued."

• Brian Smith, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service-Fall City (Omaha), Nebraska: "The new Enhanced-Fujita Tornado Damage Scale: What it is and how it's different from the original Fujita Tornado Damage scale."

• Chad Cowan, a meteorologist (<-- not correct) based here in Chicago, has storm-chased for years all across this country's Heartland. He and colleagues were in the field the night the devastating Greensburg, Kansas twister hit last May, all but wiping the community off the face of the earth. He joins with video of that horrific storm shot by fellow storm chasers and information on a DVD which has been put together in an effort to aid relief efforts by the Red Cross and the town of Greensburg.

• Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune: "Don't be complacent: Nature provides evidence that a tornado disaster can happen here."

 

[Joel Wright]

Hey thanks for posting that. Very interesting. Can't wait to go up there and check it out next year!