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Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium and Family Weatherfest

Current Schedule of Events

This schedule of events is subject to change. Click on a room below to see the schedule for that room.

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Last updated February 7, 2012.

Hard Hall 107
Time Event
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM TBA
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Jenna Blum, ""The Accidental Chaser: How a Writer and Weather Weenie Became A Stormchaser, Almost By Accident" "
10:00 AM Weather Balloon Launch Outside (Weather Permitting)
11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon "The Joplin, MO, May 2011 Tornado Disaster"
12:00 Noon- 1:00 PM TV Weathercasters Town Hall Meeting "The Importance of Communications and Keeping Us Safe"
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM Chris Novy, "Hear Me Now, Believe Me Later: Severe Weather Safety"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Barb Mayes Boustead, "Severe Weather on the Plains 2011 and Looking Ahead to 2012"
3:00 PM -
4:15 PM
Brian Smith, "What Not to Do During Severe Weather" Severe Weather Safety Spotter Training for the public.
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM Brian Smith, "What Not to Do During Severe Weather" Severe Weather Safety Spotter Training for the public".
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM Reynolds Davis, “What You Need to Know to Be a Storm Spotter in Lancaster County”
Hardin Hall 142
Hardin Hall 142
Hardin Hall 2nd Floor Lobby
Weatherfest Activities:  All day, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
"Be Weather Wise with Weather Whys"
"Clouds All Around Us"
"Discovery Geography"
"Drought is Not a Dry Subject"
Face Painting - weather themes
"Observing the Weather"
"Picture Yourself in the Storm" 
"Snakes Alive at Weatherfest" (10am-3pm only)
Tern and Plover, meet "Pebbles"
"The Great Reservoir Race"
"Tornado Generator"
"Weather and Climate Hit or Myth"
Hardin Hall Outdoor Activities
Meet the Lincoln and Omaha Weathercasters


Time Event
10:00 AM Weather Balloon Launch - Outside (Weather Permitting)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lincoln and Omaha Weathercasters Town Hall Meeting - in the Auditorium

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM