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Allen Pearson was the Director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center from 1965-79 and began to collaborate with [[Tetsuya Theodore Fujita|Dr. Fujita]] on tornado physical characteristics soon after the 1970 Lubbock tornado. They bounced ideas off each other and the F-scale and later the [[Fujita scale|FPP scale]] was the result. Pearson had devised the computerized encoding of the tornado base, which included the F-P-P estimates. Pearson's major role was to get the cooperation of the NWS State Climatologist and to extend the computerized data base backwards to the 1950s. Pearson was awarded the Department of Commerce's Gold Medal in 1974 for ...forecasting of severe local storms...which included the Super Outbreak of Apr 3-4, 1974. He retired from the National Weather Service in 1981 and lives in Bloomington IN. |
Allen Pearson was the Director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center from 1965-79 and began to collaborate with [[Tetsuya Theodore Fujita|Dr. Fujita]] on tornado physical characteristics soon after the 1970 Lubbock tornado. They bounced ideas off each other and the F-scale and later the [[Fujita scale|FPP scale]] was the result. Pearson had devised the computerized encoding of the tornado base, which included the F-P-P estimates. Pearson's major role was to get the cooperation of the NWS State Climatologist and to extend the computerized data base backwards to the 1950s. Pearson was awarded the Department of Commerce's Gold Medal in 1974 for ...forecasting of severe local storms...which included the Super Outbreak of Apr 3-4, 1974. Pearson successfully lobbied Congress (in the mid 1970's) for satellite readout and computer equipment that the NWS could not provide. This ultimately led to the sophisticated methodology in use today at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman OK. He retired from the National Weather Service in 1981 and lives in Bloomington IN. |
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Revision as of 13:17, 12 August 2006
Allen Pearson was the Director of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center from 1965-79 and began to collaborate with Dr. Fujita on tornado physical characteristics soon after the 1970 Lubbock tornado. They bounced ideas off each other and the F-scale and later the FPP scale was the result. Pearson had devised the computerized encoding of the tornado base, which included the F-P-P estimates. Pearson's major role was to get the cooperation of the NWS State Climatologist and to extend the computerized data base backwards to the 1950s. Pearson was awarded the Department of Commerce's Gold Medal in 1974 for ...forecasting of severe local storms...which included the Super Outbreak of Apr 3-4, 1974. Pearson successfully lobbied Congress (in the mid 1970's) for satellite readout and computer equipment that the NWS could not provide. This ultimately led to the sophisticated methodology in use today at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman OK. He retired from the National Weather Service in 1981 and lives in Bloomington IN.
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