- Providing numerous weather briefings to pilots.
- Provided river forecasts of record flooding on the Souris River in the mid 1970s.
- Implemented NWS River Forecast System in two River Forecast Centers.
- Designed and developed a simple flash flood forecast program for fast response streams and used in many NWS offices and local emergency response agencies.
- Designed, developed, and implemented the first nationally supported software to compute flash flood guidance in the MWS River Forecast Centers.
- Assisted the North Central River Forecast Center in providing river forecasts for the Flood of 1993 in the Midwest.
- Implementation of AFOS to replace teletypewriter communications.
- Capability of the RFCs to run their hydro forecast models on a central computer facility.
- Implementaton of the WSR-88D doppler radars.
- Introduction of workstation computers at NWS field stations to replace the central computer facility Implementation of AWIPS to replace AFOS.
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Name: Timothy Sweeney
Q: Where in NOAA do you work now?
A: For the past ten years I've been a hydrologist at the Office of Hydrology, Hydrologic Research Lab in Silver Spring, MD (SSMC2).
Q: When did you begin your work with NOAA?
A: I started as a meteorologist intern Dec 29, 1968 at the Weather Service Office (WSO) in Fort Wayne, IN.
Q: Looking back, what events stand out as the most memorable during your time with NOAA?
A:
Q: From your point of view, what have been the most significant changes NOAA has experienced during the past 30 years?
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