Warning Coordination Meteorologist Dave Soroka of WFO San Francisco, CA, participates in the Contra Costa County Fair. Photo by Bobbi Soroka.

Don Davis, former Meteorologist-In-Charge of the Grand Island, NE, National Weather Service office, talks about his experiences of the June 3, 1980, Grand Island tornadoes to a packed house during "A Night with Tornadoes." The presentations focused on various aspects of a series of seven tornadoes which ravaged the city leaving 5 people dead, 200 injured, and nearly $300 million in damage. Photo by Mike Moritz, WFO Hastings, NE.

All of the NWS offices with warning responsibility in the state of Alabama recently attended the annual Alabama Emergency Management conference in Mobile. From left to right are: Gary A. Beeler, WCM, WFO Mobile, AL; Jason B. Wright, WCM, WFO Birmingham, AL; Tim Troutman, WCM, WFO Huntsville, AL; Mike Coyne, MIC, WFO Huntsville; Randy McKee, MIC, WFO Mobile; Bob Goree, WCM, WFO Tallahassee, FL; and Jim Stefkovich, MIC, WFO Birmingham.

To celebrate the annual NOAA fish fry that takes place in Washington each year, the staff at WFO Goodland holds its own "fish" fry during the same day. Western Kansas "fish" consists of burgers and brats. Pictured in the photo from left to right: Meteorologist Patrick Burke, Kelly Giedd of the Student Temporary Employment Program, Meteorologist Mike Lammers, Electronic Systems Analyst (and master griller) Grady Bonsall, and Meteorologist-In-Charge Scott Mentzer.

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