Section meeting June 5th National Weather Service in Morristown

The next meeting IEEE East Tennessee Section will be at the National WeatherService Morristown office on Tuesday, June 5, 2007. Howard Waldrom ofThe NWS and associates will conduct a tour of the Weather Forecast office and discuss weather network software, radar systems on site and forecasting. The tour begins at 7:30. The section is sponsoring a cookout at the Panther Creek State park located nearby the NWS on Cherokee Lake. Hamburgers and hot dogs will be grilled at the a picnic shelter.

Speaker: Harold Waldrom National Weather Service - MorristownDate: Tuesday, June 5, 2007Time: Cookout at 6:00 at Panther Creek & Presentation at 7:30 PMWhere: Panther Creek State Park and NWS Weather Forecast Office 5974 Commerce Blvd. Morristown, TN 37814 (423-586-3771)

Please RSVP by June 2 using e-mail or phone to the addresses below.

Directions to Panther Creek State ParkPanther Creek Dr. (off Route 342), Morristown, TN
>From Knoxville - Take I-40 East to the Asheville Highway Exit # 394(11E-25W-70) Distance ~ 35 miles east of downtown Knoxville. At Exit 394 take Asheville Hwy. 11E going east (turn left under I-40 at thelight) (DO NOT TAKE 11W At Exit 392!!) Go 7 miles and veer left on 11E which becomes Andrew Johnson Highway and continue on past Jefferson City towardMorristown. At 25 miles past the 11E turn-off look for brown signs totheleft for Panther Creek State Park. Take Panther Creek Rd. (Rt 342) 3 miles north to the State Park entrance. Drive past the visitor center and swimming pool across the creek and veer toward the left to the second picnic shelter. Look for engineers standing around trying to get the charcoal lit. The NWScenter is across on the south side of 11E 2 miles back toward Knoxville on Commerce Dr. Look for the Radar Tower.

>From Oak Ridge - Take Pellissippi Parkway to I-40 and follow it throughKnoxville and then on to Morristown with the directions above. I-640 can be taken to avoid evening traffic. Exit onto Asheville highway (11E) quickly after I-640 joins with I-40

Google maps directions to NWS office (you can also zoom out slightly to see Panther Creek SP):
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=5974,+Commerce+Blvd.,+Morristown ,+TN+37814&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=76.168433,92.109375&ie=UTF8&ll=36.166584,-83.402045&spn=0.009805,0.011244&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1

Panther Creek State Park map & website: http://www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/PantherCreek/map.pdf http://www.state.tn.us/environment/parks/PantherCreek

NWS IN MORRISTOWNhttp://www.srh.noaa.gov/mrx/

Please RSVP by June 2 by e-mail or phone. Please indicate whether you will be attending just the meeting or the picnic and meeting.

Terry Kurtz:
kurtz@ieee.org 671-9021
or
Tim Bigelow: t.bigelow@ieee.org 607-6781

IEEE East Tennessee Sectionwww.ieee.org/go/easttn