To kick off our 23rd conference, we are bringing in some very special invited speakers:

• Dr. Leigh Orf, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be our banquet speaker and present his amazing super high-resolution modeling results of a tornadic thunderstorm.
• Dr. Matt Parker, North Carolina State University, will cover the challenges of predicting whether or not a rotating storm produces a tornado.
• Stanley Kite, Director of Craven County Emergency Management, will speak on Hurricane Florence's impacts.
• Justin Kiefer from WMBB-TV in Panama City will discuss Hurricane Michael.
• Gayland Hitch (Emergency Manager from Moore, OK) will take a look back at the 1999 Moore F5 tornado.
• Alex Hoon, NWS - Reno, will cover the Redding, CA firenado of 2017 and the recent Camp fire.
• Gina Eosco, Office of Weather and Air Quality, will discuss weather hazard communication.
• Additional speakers will cover the July 19 Iowa tornado outbreak and severe flash flooding in Des Moines in June.
• Another popular, hands-on, interactive radar workshop.