History
The VORTEX-95 Operations Plan is a rewritten version of the VORTEX-94 Operations Plan. Most of the writing, and all of the editing, has been the responsibility of Erik Rasmussen. The following individuals contributed to that document, and have helped with the rewrite this year: Howie Bluestein, Mike Branick, Robert P. Davies-Jones, Charles Doswell III, Robert A. Maddox, Jose Meitin, Jerry M. Straka, Andrew I. Watson.
WWW version
This version of the Operations Plan is a " Weberized" version of the draft plan created in late February, 1995. Individuals needing the " official" operations plan, due to be published near 15 March 1995, should contact Erik Rasmussen.
This paper version of the Operations Plan was written under NeXTStep using FrameMaker. Most of the figures were drafted using Appsoft Draw and easily reformatted into a variey of formats using OmniImage. The first cut at html was performed using the UNIX/GNU " gawk" program. The awk script that controlled the conversion is available (with no warranty or support of any kind!) from Erik Rasmussen. The resulting html files were edited to clean up formatting and correct some of the links. The Web Browser used in the interactive editing of the html was OmniWeb.Harold Brooks has been largely responsible for facilitating and encouraging the use of WWW at NSSL, and has provided assistance in the creation of this document.
VORTEX Acknowledgements
The dedicated efforts of dozens of people are required to successfully conduct VORTEX. Plans for VORTEX-95 rely heavily on the experiences in VORTEX-94, and we are grateful to all of the volunteers who helped make that experiment a success.The principal investigators in VORTEX are grateful for the support of the National Science Foundation (Dr. Stephan Nelson), the Director of the NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories (Dr. Alan Thomas), the Director of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (Dr. Robert Maddox), the Director of the Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms at the University of Oklahoma (Dr. Douglas K. Lilly), the Office of Research Administration at OU (Dean Eddie Carol Smith), the Southern and Central Region Headquarters of the NWS, the Experimental Forecast Facility at NWS/Norman (OUN/Ops Center), the NWS/NMC National Severe Storms Forecast Center, the Canadian Atmosphere Environment Service, and NOAA/ERL Forecast System Laboratory (Dr. John McGinley), the MMM and ATD divisions of NCAR, and the personnel at the local NWS offices throughout the VORTEX region.
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