American Meteorological Society
National Weather Association

Memphis, TN CHAPTER

Chapter Officers

Meet and/or contact the officers of the AMS/NWA-Memphis Chapter.
 

News and Events

Find out the latest regarding the chapter, including upcoming meetings and other news.

 

2011-2012 Scholarship Application

We are now acccepting applications for our second scholarship, to be awarded for use in the 2011-2012 academic year!

Meeting Minutes and Presentations

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2011-2012

May 2012 -

 

March 2012 -

 

January 2012 - Tom Salem, "Dual Pol is Here!" - Minutes - Presentation (PPT)

 

November 2011 - Jim Branda, "EF Ratings and Storm Modes of Mid-South Tornadoes" - Minutes - Presentation (PPT)

 

September 2011 - Erik Proseus, "Mother Nature Meets Social Media" - Minutes - Presentation (PPT)

 

2010-2011

May 2011 - Meeting canceled

 

March 2011 - Corey Chaskelson & Bill Borghoff, "How to Use the NWS-Memphis Web Page" - Minutes

 

January 2011 - Tom Salem, "The Mid-South Snow Event of January 9, 2011" - Minutes - Presentation (PDF)

 

December 2010 - Ron Pryzbylinski, "History of Bow Echo Research" - Minutes - Presentation (PPT)


September 2010
- Michael Goldstein, "Air Pollution in Memphis" - Minutes - Presentation (PPT)

 

 

2009-2010

May 2010 - Tom Salem, "Discussion of Severe Weather and Flooding in the Mid-South on May 1-2, 2010" - Minutes

 

March 2010 - Chris Schultz, "Lightning - Current Understanding and Future Research" - Presentation (PPT)

 

February 2010 - Pat Spoden, "WFO Paducah and the Historic 2009 Ohio Valley Ice Storm" - Presentation (PPT)

 

November 2009 - Krissy Scotten, "WAS*IS - Weather and Society*Integrated Studies" - Presentation (PPT)

 

September 2009 - 1) Tom Salem, et al. "Synoptic Scale Factors of Significant Tornadoes in the Mid-South" - Presentation (PPT)  and 2)Michael Scotten and Jonathan Howell, "Overview of the July 30, 2009 Mid-South Tornado Outbreak" - Presentation (PPT)

 

2008-2009

May 2009 - "Mid-South Convective Weather Forum"


1) Tom Salem, "Jets and Severe Weather" - Presentation (PPT)
2) Tom Salem and Kevin Terry, "Implementation of Dual Polarization Radar of the NWS WSR-88D Radars" - Presentation (PPT)
3) Michael and Krissy Scotten, "Correlating El Nino Southern Oscillation to Cold Season Tornado Occurrences at NWS Memphis" - Presentation (PPT)
4) Michael Scotten, "A Detailed Analysis of the May 8, 2008 Tupelo, MS Tornadic Supercell" - Presentation (PPT)

 

March 2009 - Jonathan Howell, "Extratropical Transition of Hurricane Ike and Resultant Mid-South Damaging Wind Event" - MinutesPresentation (PPT)

 

February 2009 - Rich Okulski, "NWS Support for the Presidential Debate in Oxford, MS" - Presentation (PDF)

 

November 2008 - Erik Proseus and Melvin Bradley, "The WINDS of Change: FedEx's New Corporate Weather System" - Presentation (PPT)

 

September 2008 - Business Meeting and Dinner at Corky's Barbecue

 

2007-2008

May 2008 - Kevin Terry, "Uses of the GR2Analyst Software to Display Advanced Radar Products on your PC"

 

March 2008 - Jonathan Howell and Todd Beal, "Super Tuesday Mid-South Tornado Outbreak" - Presentation (PPT)

 

January 2008 - Rusty Haley, "Running Northwest Airlines during a Major Snow Event" - Presentation (PPT)

 

November 2007 - Randall Roby, "Emergency Management, Using Weather to Save Lives in Shelby County"

 

September 2007 - Jonathan Howell, "Inside View of National Weather Service Operations and Severe Weather Case Study"