Ohio State hosts annual symposium on severe weather - 04/23/03

Tornadoes, lightning, fire weather and lake-effect snow are topics of the 7th annual Ohio Weather Symposium at The Ohio State University. The conference will take place from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday (4/25) at the Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road.

The conference, presented by Ohio State’s Meteorology Club, features speakers from a wide range of meteorological specialties who will discuss severe-weather research, forecasting and presentation. The symposium is open to the public.

A conference schedule is at
http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/. Among the highlights:

9 - 9:35 a.m. Philip Krider, professor of meteorology at the University of Arizona, will discuss the causes and effects of lightning.

10:20-10:50 a.m. John Franks of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Wilmington, Ohio, will report on the expansion of the Fire Weather Program in Ohio.

1:55-2:35 p.m. Jeffrey Logsdon of the National Weather Service in northern Indiana will discuss the F4 tornado that destroyed parts of Van Wert, Ohio, in November 2002.

2:45-3:25 p.m. Dan McCarthy, Warning Coordination Meteorologist of the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., will relate the Van Wert tornado outbreak to Ohio tornado climatology.

WHAT:7th annual Ohio Weather Symposium

WHEN: 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday (4/25)

WHERE: Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road.

WHY: To discuss the latest severe-weather research.