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Radar & Applications Course News

The Radar & Applications Course has begun offering courses that start at multiple times during the fiscal year to better accommodate new NWS employees. If you have a newly hired forecaster in your forecast office who you want to sign up for the next available RAC, please contact Robert Prentice's e-mail address.

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Administrative Details

WDTD will provide information on a variety of administrative details an issues in this area.

  • For the FY23 version of the course, there will be no printed handout provided. We do make a digital PDF version of the lesson handouts available from our web site. The handouts can be accessed at the end of each topic.
  • The RAC workshop will be 5 days long. As a result, travel days for the workshop will be Sunday and Friday evening or Saturday. When making flight reservations, we recommend that participants schedule flights on Friday evening after 7 pm unless there is a significant scheduling conflict.

Contact Information

If you encounter any problems, or have any other questions, with RAC, please feel free to contact us. The following e-mails contacts have been provided for your convenience.

Topic
Email Address
General Help
RAC Help List E-mail
Administrative Support
RAC Help List E-mail
AWIPS Fundamentals
Andrew Wood's E-mail address
Introduction to the WSR-88D
Andrew Wood's E-mail address
Principles of Meteorological Doppler Radar
Jami Boettcher's E-mail address
Velocity Interpretation
Jami Boettcher's E-mail address
Base and Derived Products
Andrew Wood's E-mail address
Convective Storm Structure and Evolution
Bobby Prentice's E-mail address
Flash Floods
Brad Grant's E-mail address
Warning Fundamentals
Brad Grant's E-mail address
Humans in the Warning Process
Brad Grant's E-mail address
RAC Workshop
RAC Help List E-mail