The following speakers are confirmed for this years conference:

• Dr. Karen Kosiba (University of Alabama-Huntsville): Near-ground tornado winds measured by radar, with an emphasis on the Greenfield, IA tornado.
• Dr. Adam Clark (NSSL) How cutting-edge computer models are helping with severe weather forecasting.
• Kevin Kelleher (retired, NSSL): Science advising in the movies Twister and Twisters.
• Dr. Chris Weiss (Texas Tech University): The search for SVCs and friction-induced vorticity worms in observations, and also on QLCS tornadoes
• Clay Chaney (NWS-Greenville/Spartanburg): Catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene in the North Carolina mountains.
• Brian Barjenbruch (NWS-Omaha): The April 26 tornado outbreak in eastern Nebraska and Iowa
• Kim Brewer, a Greenfield, IA resident, will tell her riveting story about how she and her daughter survived being thrown from their destroyed home in the Greenfield tornado.
• In addition, NWS-Des Moines personnel will discuss the May 21 tornado outbreak that led to the Greenfield tornado and the record June flooding in northwest Iowa.