The following two presentations have been provided by Jeff Wallenfang, a senior forecaster at the Des Moines National Weather Service office. They contain detailed and up-to-date storm spotter training information on both an Iowa and national level. This is a new internet-based approach to the spotter training process. (posted 1/14/05)

Spotter presentation specific to the Des Moines CWA (HTML version, compatible with IE 6.0)
General spotter presentation (HTML version, compatible with IE 6.0)


On March 13, 2003, Eric Aligo and Dave Flory presented a proposal to our chapter. The proposal in powerpoint and document are linked below for those of you that could not attend the meeting.

Proposal.ppt (requires Microsoft Powerpoint)
Proposal.doc (requires Microsoft Word)


Here are some educational presentations prepared by Brandon Storm (AMS President during the 2002-2003 school year). He put together two presentations about the National Center for Atmospheric Research and presented them at one of our meetings in January 2003.

National Center for Atmospheric Research 1 (requires Powerpoint)
National Center for Atmospheric Research 2 (requires Powerpoint)

NCAR Leadership Presentation