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2024 In a Flash: A Year of NSSL Innovation in Severe Storm Science
Jan 27, 2025
We recap all the accomplishments NOAA's National Severe Storms Lab made in 2024!
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Phased Array: The Weather Radar of the Future
Nov 20, 2024
NEXRAD, the main radar system for weather forecasting, is nearing the end of its lifespan, prompting the need for a replacement. The Radar Next program aims to enhance radar technology with rapid updates and flexible scanning. Phased array technology enables quicker atmospheric scans, improving storm monitoring and warning capabilities. This advancement is vital for public safety as severe weather events increase, ensuring timely information dissemination.
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NSSL: Celebrating 60 Years
Sep 11, 2024
Explore the rich history of the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory and the amazing accomplishments we've had for the past 60 years.
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Warn-on-Forecast
Jun 3, 2024
Currently there is a forecast information gap between watches and warnings. The Warn-on-Forecast system (WoFS) is providing the information to fill that gap. A system that runs every half hour producing 3 to 6 hour forecasts, WoFS takes in the most recent observations from weather radar, satellite, and surface data, to provide updated forecasts that can be looked at during that time frame to help forecasters focus in on the corridors where storms could have the biggest impact.
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NOAA NSSL's Severe Weather Research in the Field
Feb 21, 2024
Step into the heart of field research with the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) and discover the groundbreaking work that goes into understanding and forecasting severe thunderstorms. Join us as scientists share insights gained from facing tornadoes, lightning, hail, and more head-on, revealing how field observations revolutionize weather modeling and enhance forecast accuracy.
BONUS EXTRA VIDEO!
What might it be like to be an NSSL researcher? Get in on the action and see what a day is like for these daring scientists.
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2023 Spring Recap: NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed
Jul 28, 2023
We recap the 2023 Spring activity at the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT). Located in Norman, Oklahoma, the HWT is both a conceptual framework as well as a physical space that aims to bridge the gap between scientific advancement and operational meteorology.
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Tornado Intercept: The Union City Twister and the Birth of Doppler Radar
May 24, 2023
On May 24, 1973 an F-4 tornado tore through Union City, Okla. With a Tornado Intercept Team in the field and a then-experimental Doppler radar just miles away, NSSL researchers made history, capturing for the first time the full lifecycle of a tornado with Doppler radar and discovering the tornadic vortex signature (TVS). In the 50 years since Union City, NSSL has been a driver of innovation in radar technology, helping forecasters increase warning times and save lives.
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Bite-Sized Science
NSSL's Bite-Sized Science video series focuses on specific activities and projects from the NOAA Weather Partners in Norman, OK.
Share Your Tornado Tales!
HWT in the Virtual World
Studying Tornado Damage with UAS
VORTEX Southeast
Threats in Motion
Exploring the Supercell
Advanced Technology Demonstrator
Improving Flash Flood Warnings
Hazardous Weather Testbed 2018
VORTEX Southeast in 2018
Eye-Tracking for Weather Research
Warn on Forecast
VORTEX Southeast
FACETs
Hands-On Phased Array Radar
Rotation Tracks
The Hazardous Weather Testbed
The mPING App
Multi-function Phased Array Radar
Dual Polarization Technology
Observations on the Go: NSSL Field Observation Tools
Nov 17, 2020
NSSL participates in research projects in the field to collect weather data that will increase our knowledge about thunderstorm behavior and thunderstorm hazards. From the 1990s to present day, mobile observation tools have allowed NSSL researchers to take to the road to measure the atmosphere. Learn about their innovative designs and how researchers use these tools to safely gather data in storms.
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Weather Briefly
Weather Briefly is a short-form video series highlighting the many types of severe weather along with research being done by NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory.
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Union City Archival Video
Mar 14, 2019
For half a century, U.S. Weather Bureau and NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory researchers have been filming and photographing tornadoes and severe weather throughout the United States as part of their quest to understand and better predict deadly storms. On May 24, 1973, researchers filmed a devastating tornado that tore through the small town of Union City, Okla. This tornado turned out to be a significant event in the development of weather radar and the history of severe weather research and forecasting.
Three reels of 16 mm film from that day have been stored at NSSL, unusable. With the help of the
National Film Preservation Foundation
, those historic reels have been restored and transferred. We are pleased to share this historic footage.
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NSSL 101
May 31, 2017
NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) researches ways to observe and predict severe weather to save lives and reduce economic loss. NSSL scientists and engineers work to understand the causes of severe weather and explore innovative ways to use that knowledge to improve forecasts and warnings. NSSL transfers scientific understanding, applications, and techniques to decision-makers to support a Weather-Ready Nation.
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The
FACETs
Project
Oct 7, 2015
The FACETs project is a complete reinvention of the current watches and warnings the National Weather Service currently uses. FACETs is a proposed next-generation severe weather watch and warning framework that is modern, flexible, and designed to communicate clear and simple hazardous weather information to serve the public.
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Highlights from the National Weather Festival
Updated: Dec 16, 2015
The Norman Chamber of Commerce's Weather Committee hosts the annual National Weather Festival every year at the National Weather Center in Norman. The free public event features tours, children's activities, a storm chaser car show, displays by local businesses, weather-related seminars, Science on a Sphere, and hourly weather balloon launches.
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2013 Presidential Early Career Awards
Apr 15, 2014
In a White House ceremony on April 15, 2014, NSSL/CIMMS scientist Adam Clark received the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Clark joins four other PECASE award winners from NSSL.
The award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers. An award ceremony is planned in Washington, D.C. in the fall.
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Radar Research at the NOAA National Severe Storms Lab
Mar 14, 2013
For the past several decades, research conducted by NOAA's National Severe Storms Lab has led to the development of a national weather radar network and progressing from having no warning of threatening weather to about a 15-minute lead-time. Current research with phased array radar promises to extend the warning lead-time much further.
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NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment
Aug 10, 2011
Each spring, the National Weather Center hosts an experiment that brings together the top weather minds in forecasting, research, and academia to test new technologies that will become part of the weather field in the future. Created with a video game theme, this video features NWS forecasters and participating researchers, interviewed in four “levels” including, “Tactical Role Playing,” “Real-Time Strategy,” “Co-Op Feedback,” and “Experience Points.”
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STEM Stories: Pam Heinselman
Apr 7, 2011
STEM Stories
, a project to highlight the lives and work of women involved in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) now includes a profile video on NSSL scientist Pam Heinselman. STEM Stories combines compelling personal stories and multimedia to inspire children in grades 4–8 in STEM subjects and careers.
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That Weather Show: Dual Polarization Technology
Mar 21, 2011
NSSL's videographer James Murnan has posted a creative outreach video explaining dual-polarization radar technology. Part of the “That Weather Show” series, the video creatively spoofs popular commercials to talk about the benefits of the planned upgrade to existing National Weather Service weather radars.
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Improved Flood Forecasting with CI-FLOW
Aug 20, 2010
The collaborative Coastal and Inland-Flooding Observation and Warning Project (CI-FLOW) released a new video demonstrating how their prototype total water level simulation system can help improve NWS flood forecasting and save lives of people residing and working in coastal watersheds.
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Presidential Early Career Awards
Jan 20, 2010
NSSL research scientists studying improvements in tornado forecasting and new radar systems, Michael C. Coniglio and Pamela L. Heinselman, were named as recipients of the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
The award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers. An award ceremony is planned in Washington, D.C. in the fall.
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That Weather Show: VORTEX2
Mar 16, 2010
That Weather Show
is a video/podcast series from the NOAA Weather Partners in Norman, OK. This first video episode was dedicated to the brave scientists whose mission is to hunt tornadoes. Hosted by Cat Taylor, 2009 Miss Oklahoma International and University of Oklahoma meteorology student.
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NSSL in the Field
Mar 12, 2009
Learn more about NSSL's activities in field observations: the instruments, the vehicles, the history, and the next big project, VORTEX2. Ride along with NSSL scientists as they take their instruments to the storm.
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Multifunction Phased Array Radar
Oct 18, 2007
The future of weather radar lies in phased array technology, with its advanced multi-function capabilities and performance.
This video gives a brief overview of the advantages to be gained from the implementation of phased array radar technology, with emphasis on improvements in weather forecasting, transportation safety, homeland security, and the cost effectiveness of the system.
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NOAA Weather Partners Spotlight
Jul 26, 2007
Severe weather and the tools to forecast and monitor it. This is the focus of researchers at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.
This brief video, featuring NSSL Director, Dr. Jeff Kimpel, provides an overview of the research conducted at NSSL, highlighting the three main topics of weather radar, hydrometeorology, and forecast and warning improvements.
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