The 2009 Fermilab/WGN-TV Tornado and Severe Weather Seminar is to be held Saturday, April 25, at noon and repeated in its entirety at 6 p.m. We hope you can join us! The programs are free of charge, require no tickets and feature seating on a first come, first served basis. This is the 29th year we've presented our Fermilab tornado seminars, and we look forward to seeing you!
Map to Wilson Hall and Fermilab (provided by Fermilab)
Click here for full presentation descriptions for all the scheduled speakers
Click the link below for the scheduled list of speakers and topics; and look for more details about each presentation in the days ahead!
--Tom Skilling, Chief Meteorologist, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune
This year's speakers and the titles of their presentations:
"Advancing the Prediction of Extreme Weather Events"
Dr. Louis Uccellini, Director of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), National Weather Service
"What is New at the Storm Prediction Center"
Dr.Joe Schaefer, Director of the Storm Prediction Center, responsible for all of the country's tornado and severe thunderstorm watches and for issuing wildfire forecasts
"The National Weather Service's StormReady Supporter Program: How can your business, school, hospital, place of worship, sports venue, or any place people gather be prepared for a severe storm?"
Ed Fenelon, Meteorologist in Charge of the National Weather Service-Forecast Office-Chicago
"Last summer's devastating and lightning intensive August 4 Northern Illinois and Indiana Derecho"
Tim Halbach, Forecaster, National Weather Service Forecast Office-Chicago
"Getting the warning out: A behind the scenes look at how tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings are issued at the Chicago NWS Office"
Jim Allsopp, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service Forecast Office, Chicago
"Any wind can kill!"
Brian Smith, Warning Coordination Meteorologist and seminar co-founder, National Weather Service Forecast Office-Omaha, Nebraska
"Tornadoes: Fatalities Associated with Nature's Most Intense Windstorms"
Dr. Walker Ashley, Meteorology Professor, Northern Illinois University-DeKalb
"Lightning strikes can kill--but also forever change the lives of their surviving victims"
Dr.Mary Ann Cooper. MD, longtime Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois-Chicago
"We came so close to a disaster in September 2006: The Loyola University tornado touchdown on Chicago's North Side"
Tom Skilling, Chief meteorologist, WGN-TV-Moderator and presenter
