TORNADO AND STORM RESEARCH ORGANISATION

 

TORRO Annual Spring Conference

 Saturday 31st March 2007

Room DEM06

 Oxford Brookes University,

Gipsy Lane

Headington, Oxford.

 

TORRO invites you to participate in the TORRO Annual Spring Conference. All are welcome but advance booking is required. If you would like to attend, please complete the booking form below.

 

10.30am        Registration and Tea/Coffee in Room Dem05

 

11.00am        Welcome and Introductions

 

11:10am       TORRO Annual Review 2006

 

TORRO Directors look back at last year’s thunderstorms, hailstorms, ball lightning,
 lightning strikes, tornadoes, funnel clouds, waterspouts, gales, coastal storms and    snowstorms.    What were the highlights? Was it an average or exceptional year?

Thunderstorms

Jonathan Webb

Lightning Injuries & Deaths

Derek Elsom

Ball Lightning

Peter Van Doorn

Hailstorms

Jonathan Webb

Ireland Tornadoes, Waterspouts & other Whirlwinds

John Tyrrell

Heavy Snowfalls & Blizzards

Richard Wild

Windstorms

Steve Roberts

Extreme Rainfalls Division

John Mason

Review of TORRO Forecasts

Paul Knightley

 

1.00pm             TORRO’s AMM (Annual Members Meeting)  an appraisal of TORRO’s recent      

                              activities, future activities and plans.

 

 

1.30pm          Lunch and Informal Weather Discussions

An opportunity to talk to other participants and to show your weather-related photos and to make new contacts, and Purchase TORRO merchandise, (teas/coffees available)

 

 

2.30pm          The Tornado Database Project

 

                        A brief description of the Web enabled database  being produced

                        By Stuart Robinson and Richard Pearson

                     

 

2.45pm          UK Tornadoes, Waterspouts & other Whirlwinds 2006- Terence Meaden

                       

 

3.15pm           Severe weather in Malta – 2006 - Mark Vella Gera

 

 

3.45pm          General Questions and Discussion (and Ask the Experts) ?

 

 

4.15pm          Meeting closes

 

 

Return the completed form to Ian Miller, 5 Avenue Terrace, Ashbrooke, Sunderland, SR2 7HB. Together with a cheque for the conference fee: FULL TORRO members £5, others £10. Subject to spaces being available, concessions may be requested for full-time students, partners of full members, and the unwaged - please direct any enquiries to ian.miller@torro.org.ukTeas/coffees will be provided to participants (but full on-site catering is not available). Alternatively call 077325 39509 for more detail.

 

 

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Your name(s) & address (please PRINT):

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Postcode: ______________           TORRO FULL membership number, if known:   ________

 

Tel: ______________________ E-mail: __________________

 

Please reserve one place/two places (circle which is appropriate). I enclose £ _____ (cheque made payable to TORRO).  A map of the meeting location will be forwarded to you if required. Thank you.

 

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For those attending who are not TORRO members who join at the meeting will pay the members price and half of their conference entrance fee, will be refunded.