Sept 16 Tornado Event Review & Analysis

[Ted Jacobson]

Analysis of the September 16, 2010
Southeast Ohio Tornado Outbreak
Presenters: Nick Webb and Andy Roche
National Weather Service Forecasting Office
Charleston, WV

Ohio University - Walter Hall 135
Friday October 29th - 3:00 p.m.

The widespread severe weather activity on the evening of
16 September 2010 across southeast Ohio and portions of West Virginia
will not soon be forgotten.  Damaging many homes and businesses,
inciting fear and havoc, and claiming a life in West Virginia,
the weather on this day has dramatically changed the landscape and
livelihoods across the region. Although unique, storms of this
intensity have occurred in the past. There therefore exists an
important need to learn more about them so that we can be better
prepared for similar events in the future.  Please join Nick Webb,
Andy Roche, and other forecasters and personnel from the
National Weather Service Charleston Forecasting Office who followed
these storms all evening for an in-depth look at their life cycles,
including pictures taken by storm survey teams who classified each
event. The presentation will describe why certain
damage was classified as a tornado, while others where classified as
downbursts (and what a downburst is). The event is free and open to
the public; indeed attendance by all interested parties is encouraged.

The colloquium is co-sponsored by the Scalia Laboratory for Atmospheric
Analysis and the Department of Geography at Ohio University.

An informal reception hosted by the Student Chapter of the
American Meteorological Society will follow the colloquium.

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Dr. Ryan Fogt
Assistant Professor
Director, Scalia Laboratory for Atmospheric Analysis
Ohio University Department of Geography
122 Clippinger Laboratories - Athens, OH 45701
(740) 593-1151
fogtr at ohio.edu
oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~fogtr
www.scalialab.com
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