Keith Sherburn Email & Phone Number

Rapid City, SD, US

Rapid City, South Dakota Area

• Member of the NWS Central Region (CR) Convective Warning Improvement Project (CWIP) Team
• NWS CR LEAD 2020-2022 Class Member
• NWS Rapid City Team Memberships: Science/SOO Support (Lead), GIS, Leadership, Outreach, SDEOC, Shareholders Report, Social Media
• NWS Rapid City Focal Points: Diversity/EEO, DSS, Long-Fused Warning Verification, Radar, SOO Training, WES

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Raleigh, NC

• Teaching assistant for Spring 2015 senior-level mesoscale meteorology course
• Teaching assistant for Fall 2014 senior-level synoptic meteorology course

Raleigh, NC

Shawnee, KS

• Provide weather forecasts and consulting to clients in Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska through phone calls, forecast packages, forecast graphics, and text messages
• Led an effort to revolutionize company operations, focusing on the development, testing, and dissemination of new forecast products

Raleigh, NC

• Social media focal during high impact severe weather events in Summer 2013
• Performed case studies of high shear, low CAPE tornado and significant wind events as part of a CSTAR project
• Performed case studies of unverified warnings for the 2012 CSTAR Workshop
• Evaluated the performance of satellite-derived convective initiation products to determine their applicability during summertime pulse convection across the Carolinas and Virginia
• Archived maximum recorded wind speeds for multiple tropical cyclone events to assist with a project designed to improve inland wind gust forecasts
• Completed a dew point climatology for 5 stations within the RAH area to improve knowledge of monthly and diurnal dew point cycles

Raleigh, NC

• Completed an environmental climatology of high shear, low convective available potential energy (CAPE; HSLC) events as part of the Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR) program
• Developed composite parameters statistically verified to improve the discrimination between significant severe and non-severe convection in National Weather Service's Eastern, Southern, and Western Regions
• Running idealized simulations to investigate the dynamics of severe HSLC convection
• Presented research during the American Meteorological Society (AMS)'s 26th Severe Local Storms Conference, the 2012 CSTAR Workshop, the AMS 12th Annual Student Conference, monthly CSTAR conference calls, a National.

Nashville, TN

• Performed radar watch and coordinated with WFO Morristown during office backup in Summer 2011
• Assisted with spotter training event at Nashville Bridgestone plant
• Participated in emergency management activities prior to Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2011
• Participated in flood stage mapping during Summer 2011
• Developed a preliminary station map for a Middle Tennessee Mesonet

Norman, OK

• Graded homework assignments for junior-level Atmospheric Dynamics II course

Norman, OK

• Utilized high-resolution Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE) wind reports in association with archived radar imagery to determine the correlation between various radar reflectivity and velocity.
• Modified the call question script for SHAVE wind event operations in order to obtain more detailed wind reports, allowing for the mapping of damage by EF-scale and predominant wind direction
• Assisted with SHAVE operations by identifying convection with the potential for producing damaging winds through radar observations

Norman, OK

• Completed a research project comparing the environmental climatology between severe events in the Hastings, NE and Dallas/Fort Worth, TX National Weather Service county warning areas
• Shadowed forecasters during high-profile severe weather events

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Atmospheric Sciences

Activities and Societies: Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student Association (Vice President, 2014-2015)

Master Of Science (M.S.), Atmospheric Sciences, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Convective Storms Group, WxChallenge (Aug. 2011 – current)• Recipient of the Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Meteorology, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Oklahoma Weather Lab (Aug. 2007 – May 2011), OU Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (Aug..