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Radar & Applications Course News

The National Weather Service (NWS) Warning Decision Training Division (WDTD) strives to offer the RAC at least once per quarter during the fiscal year to best accommodate new NWS forecasters. If you have a newly hired forecaster in your office who you want to sign up for the next available RAC, please complete Robert Prentice's e-mail address.

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Administrative Details

WDTD will provide information on a variety of administrative details and issues on this webpage.

  • While there is no Radar & Applications Course (RAC) student guide, speaker notes (i.e., audio narration text) for each lesson available for download in PDF format at the end of each topic in the RAC Course Outline webpage.
  • The in-residence RAC workshop runs for a full week, starting on Monday at 8 a.m. and ending on Friday at 5 p.m.. Travel days are the Sunday before and Friday evening or Saturday after the workshop. Students are advised to book return flights home for after 7 p.m. on Friday to ensure adequate time to reach the Oklahoma City Will Rogers World Airport.

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 nws.wdtd.rachelp@noaa.gov
Administrative Support nws.wdtd.rachelp@noaa.gov
AWIPS Fundamentals nws.wdtd.awips@noaa.gov
Introduction to the WSR-88D andrew.c.wood@noaa.gov
Principles of Meteorological Doppler Radar andrew.c.wood@noaa.gov
Base and Derived Products andrew.c.wood@noaa.gov
Velocity Interpretation katy.christian@noaa.gov
Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (MRMS) alyssa.bates@noaa.gov
Convective Storm Structure and Evolution robert.a.prentice@noaa.gov
Flash Floods jill.hardy@noaa.gov
Warning Fundamentals hannah.wells@noaa.gov
Humans in the Warning Process melissa.lamkin@noaa.gov
RAC Workshop nws.wdtd.rachelp@noaa.gov
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