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<br />Friday, July 12 <br /> <br />3:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The Flash Flood Forecasters Course <br />at the National Weather Service Training Center: <br />The Environmental Research Laboratories Component <br /> <br />Harold Brooks, Charles A. Doswell ill, and Robert A. Maddox <br />NOAA/ERL National Severe Storms Laboratory <br />and <br />Dennis Rogers and Barry Schwartz <br />NOAA/ERL Forecast Systems Laboratory <br /> <br />After a series of flash flood disasters in the 1970s, including the Big Thompson flood, the <br />National Weather Service initiated a Flash Flood Forecasters Course. From the beginning, <br />research meteorologists from the Environmental Research Laboratories (ERL) have been <br />involved in teaching part of the course on forecasting heavy rain and be mesoscale analysis. We <br />present a historical overview of the REL portion of the course and its emphases, including the <br />recent work to expand the course to the World Wide Web in an effort to reach more <br />meteorologists, both in and out of the NWS. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Site-Specific Probable Maximum Precipitation (pMP) <br />for the Central and Western Carolinas <br /> <br />Ed Tomlinson <br />Enfo, Inc. <br />and <br />John Vandal <br />Duke Power <br /> <br />A site-specific Probable Maximum Precipitation (pMP) study for the Catawba-Wateree and <br />Buzzards Roost watersheds in central and western North Carolina and South Carolina has been <br />completed. Significant variations in PMP values associated with the topography of this region <br />have been identified. <br /> <br />The largest storm events for the Carolinas are centered either along or just inland of the Atlantic . <br />seaboard, or are associated with the Appa1achian Mountains ridgeline. Storms centered in the <br />middle portion of the states are smaller than the storms centered over the eastern or western <br /> <br />25 <br />