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Last Updated
11 October 2004

 

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National Severe Storms Laboratory

Come celebrate
our 40th anniversary
with us!

October 15-16, 2004

40th Anniversary

The National Severe Storms Laboratory is one of NOAA's internationally known research laboratories, leading the way in investigations of all aspects of severe weather. Headquartered in Norman OK, the people of NSSL, in partnership with the National Weather Service, are dedicated to improving severe weather warnings and forecasts in order to save lives and reduce property damage.


Glimpses of our past...

Annual chance of any tornado in the US NSSL Researcher Answers the Question: "When and Where Does Severe Weather Occur?"
by Rachel Shortt
Posted 10/11/04

... It all began when Brooks attended a meeting with the Federal Emergency Management Agency about tornadoes in Washington, D.C., in 1998. One of the main questions from this meeting was, “How do we determine the real threat of things that are happening and how often should we expect certain kinds of events to occur and where?” This brought about the concept of focusing efforts on understanding the climatology of severe weather.

The study has become a major solution to the problem of how to gather together observations of severe weather, where there are a lot of biases, and take those biases away to produce an estimate that is more believable, Brooks said.

Once I had started working on it, I also realized I could apply it to lots of things ..."

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