Open House
March 23, 1998
(All shots from NSSL's WSR88D research RADAR [KOUN1])
Northeast, towards NWS Forecast Office/NEXRAD
Operational Support Facility and OSF's WSR88D
Northwest, NSSL's retired research doppler (NRO)
Northward, NSSL/SPC main building in background,
JMRF in foreground
Eastward, NWS balloon launch facility
Joint Mobile Research Facility
Les Showell prepares NSSL Mobile Atmospheric
Observatory (NSSL 1) ... for the inevitable
crowds (
NSSL 1 and
NSSL4)
Doppler On Wheels (DOW 2)
Balloon launch equipment
JMRF vehicles with NSSL's retired Norman
research doppler (NRO) in the background
JMRF Team readying the balloon ...
and away she goes!
National Weather Service's Norman Forecast Office
NOAA WeatherRadio display featuring Mark Trail
Norman Forecast Office's balloon launch facility
Balloon ready to go
Away she goes! (again)
Forecaster Megan Terry explains NWS Norman's
forecast operations area
Forecaster Doug Speheger demonstrates new AWIPS
system
Crowd views forecast operations area as Science
and Operations Officer David Andras answers questions
SKYWARN Amateur Radio station in forecast
area
NEXRAD Operational Support Facility
RADAR technical display (that's a 750,000 Watt
Klystron tube in the middle)
OSF staff demonstrate NEXRAD radar
OSF radar displays
National Severe Storms Laboratory
Visitors view multi-media displays in lobby
Glidersonde display (
closeup)
Storm Prediction Center
Visitors view the Storm Predicition Center
operations area as Science and Operations Officer Bob Johns explains
what the forecasters do
Forecaster Greg Carbin directs visitors to an
SPC display
Affiliated orgs
Members of Air Force Weather Service from Tinker
AFB ...
attract a crowd
Oklahoma Climatatological Survey demos a
Mesonet tower
Closeup of Mesonet tower
The Tinker Air Force Band Flying High entertains visitors
Oklahoma Department of Civil Emergency Management
Visitors
Students from Little Axe, Oklahoma return home
American Red Cross
Volunteers from the Cleveland County Chapter
stand by to provide first aid
EmTRAC, the Emergency Training and Response
Action Center
Interior of EmTRAC
John Perry of the Cleveland County Chapter explains the EmTRAC radio room
Volunteers
Volunteers from Moore Emergency Management provide much-needed traffic control
Information please
Tee Shirts, get your tee shirts heeyah!
Helpful members of the employees association
Tour guides await next assignment
Dr Schultz tests digital camera
Bob Owens, EmTRAC crew chief, keeps everything "spic and span"
More images from NWSFO OUN WCM Jim Purpura
Images from the Memorial Ceremony
Awards Ceremony celebrating the success of the 50th
Wednesday, 22-Nov-2006 15:39:47 CST
All images by Peter Laws, NSSL/CIMMS