Warning Decision Making Workshop Support Page
The WDM Workshop Support Page provides presenations and other support materials from the four "versions" of the WDTB WDM workshops. These workshops, which took place between 1998 and 2003, were train-the-trainer workshops that focused on the science, technology, and societal impacts of making warning decisions for severe weather and flash floods.
The materials provided on this page will be broken up according to the "version" of the workshop (i.e., WDM I, WDM II, etc.) at which they were presented. The presentations are provided as HTML web presentations unless otherwise noted (usually PDF files or Corel Presentations). You can left-mouse click on the links to open the presenation, or save the presentation to your computer by right-mouse click on the
link and choose "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As...".
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WDM I (1998-2000):
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WDM II (2001):
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WDM III (2002):
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WDM IV (2003):
- Post-Mortem Template (PDF, 65 KB)
- When Bad Things Happen to Good Forecasters - Part 1 (Corel SHW, 3.3 MB)
- When Bad Things Happen to Good Forecasters - Part 2 (PDF, 2.2 MB)
- Flash Flood Guidance Issues (PDF, 3.61 MB)
- Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction (FFMP)
(PDF,
6.6 MB)
- How Effective Post-Mortems can Improve Decision Making (Please contact Liz Quoetone at
 for an updated version of this presentation)
- A Detailed Look at Extreme Wind Damage in Derecho Events (PDF, 3.4 MB)
- Forecasting the Onset of Damaging Winds Associated with a Squall Line/Bow Echo Using the Mid-Altitude Radial Convergence (MARC) Signature (PDF, 7.3 MB)
- Overview of Storm and Vortex Morphology During the ‘Intensifying Stage’ of Mesoscale Convective System Evolution (PDF, 5.5 MB)
- HPC - Severe Weather/Flash Flood Decision Making (Corel SHW, 25 MB)
- A Survey of Boulder Creek Floodplain Residents and Other Topics (PDF, 1.8 MB)
- SPC Mesoscale Analysis and Convective Parameters (PDF, 758 KB)
- Towards Improvements in QPE for Flash Flood Applications in NWS (PDF, 7.4 MB)
- Weather Event Simulator Best Practices (PDF, 5.4 MB)
- High Resolution Radar Imagery (PDF, 4.6 MB)
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