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Scheduled Speaker at SD School of Mines: Tim Marshall (Engineer, Meteorologist, Storm Chaser)

  • 1.  Scheduled Speaker at SD School of Mines: Tim Marshall (Engineer, Meteorologist, Storm Chaser)

    Posted 10-17-2019 01:24 PM
    Hello all:

    I'd like to invite you to an upcoming joint seminar between SD Mine's Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, and Civil and Environmental Engineering on the intersection between Civil Engineering and Meteorology.

    We look forward to seeing you.


    Joint Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences, and
    Civil & Environmental Engineering Seminar
     
    Tim Marshall, P.E., Meteorologist
    Principal Engineer, Haag Engineering, Dallas, TX

    4:00-5:00 MT
    Wednesday, 23 October 2019

    SD Mines Campus
    Civil Mechanical Building, Room 310
     
    "Survey Damage Assessments of Structural Tornado Damage and the Enhanced Fujita Scale, and Instrumenting the Storm Environment of the 2016 Sulfur Tornado."
     

    Abstract

     

    This talk discusses the intersection of engineering and meteorology in assessing severe storm damage.  Here an example of surveying damage to structures left in the wake of tornadoes is presented in the context of the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale, the rating system for tornado damage intensity.  Also to be discussed is the May 2016 Sulfur, OK, EF-3 Tornado where Marshall's chase team from the Center of Severe Weather Research deployed instrumented pods in front of two tornadoes with the second tornado hitting one of the instrument pods.



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    Bill Capehart A.M.ASCE
    Director, Atmospheric & Environmenrtal Sciences Program
    Civil and Environmental Engineering
    South Dakota School of Mines
    Rapid City SD
    William.Capehart@...
    605-394-1994
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