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Texas Tornado Warning Conference

"On June 24, 1953, a hastily called meeting at Texas A&M brought weather experts and officials together to discuss how to improve the detection of severe storms, and if possible, to alert the public of approaching tornadoes. That meeting 50 years ago would lead to the Texas Radar Project, the nation's first weather radar network^[1]."

Links regarding this conference:

• http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/03/062403-7.html
• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/topics/attach/html/ssd97-13.htm
• http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s1163.htm
• http://www.srh.noaa.gov/topics/attach/pdf/ssd03-10.pdf

another template, US wx radar

See also

another tornado thing, 1sep1952 Carswell

1952 Unforecast tornado struck Carswell AFB, TX, causing estimated $48 million in destruction, damaging 106 of SAC's B-36s and completely destroying another, September 1. "It caused an angry outcry in Congress," the AWS historian wrote of Carswell Incident, because "the main atomic striking force of SAC had been crippled."84 Air Weather Service, 1937--1977, An Illustrated Chronology.pdf

another 'nother tornado thing, "first" hook echo

"On 9 April 1953, a major tornado occurred in central Illinois north of Champaign–Urbana. An Illinois State Water Survey radar was being operated for maintenance and test purposes by its electronics technician, D. Staggs, during passage of the storm about 25 miles to the north. Staggs turned on a 35-mm camera and recorded a remarkable echo with a hooklike appendage extending southward from a strong thunderstorm cell. The storm was reported by Stout and Huff (1953) and later analyzed in detail by Huff et al. (1954)." amsrad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1953_meteorology has nothing on that one! 1st hook!

wsr57 below, 74 had changes to see too:

Little Rock, AR (LZK or LIT?)

Little Rock, AR (LIT was the WSR-57 designator.?)

|Little Rock, AR (LIT was the WSR-57 designator.)

Little Rock, AR (LIT was the WSR-57 designator. LZK is the WSR-88D and WFO Designation.)

Moved to North Little Rock Airport with NWSFO in 1978. Final decommissioning was June 8, 1995

name of the publisher, city of publication, and ISBN are optional find example like this made by gov council

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ridge/Arsr-4/ Watford City, ND FAA ARSR-4 Radar near williston, nd!