Rick Hallman Email & Phone Number

Brownsville, Texas, United States

Serve as the shift leader responsible for quality and timeliness of all NWS forecast and service products, warnings, and advisories prepared and issued.Conduct weather watches involving interpretation of Doppler radar data, satellite imagery, and the analysis of other hydrometeorological data for the preparation of all WFO warning, forecast, and service products, including individual briefings.Serve as the primary contact with other federal, state, and local agencies such as the FAA, FEMA, and emergency management and law enforcement officials over matters involving the initiation and implementation of immediate or emergency public health and safety measures based on NWS forecasts, warnings and watches.Handle general office administrative matters which may occur on shift including augmenting staff, approving overtime, and leave.

Brownsville, Texas Area

Integrate meteorological data from a variety of sources to analyze and assess the current and forecast weather situation at both synoptic and mesoscale levels. Participate in all forecast and service programs assigned to the office. Devise, formulate, compose and issue all watch, warning, advisory, and forecast products and services assigned to office. Provides Impacted-based Decision Support Services to core partners and customers.Conduct a weather watch using remotely sensed and in situ meteorological and hydrologic data. Determine appropriate and relevant data, identify questionable or conflicting data (resolving those if possible) and analyze available data sets to determine the need for warnings, statements, or advisories, and the need for issuing or updating public and specialized-sector (e.g., aviation, fire weather, and marine) forecasts.Provide weather advice and guidance to core partners (e.g., emergency management, law enforcement, aviation, land management, transportation), the media, and the general public through various means such as forecast products, social media, and in-person or remote briefings.Provide hydrologic service products for assigned area of responsibility, including forecasts and warnings of floods and river stage for the public and numerous users dealing with water resources and/or land management, transportation, emergency management, river and flood plain control, etc.Participate in local studies and developmental projects designed to capitalize on or incorporate the benefits of new science/technology/local techniques into operations. Apply this developing body of knowledge and experience to the warning and forecast environment.

Brownsville, Texas

Training in hydrometeo forecasts including public, aviation, fire weather, flood, and marine forecasts products. Participate in the watch/warning program and assist in issuing severe weather and flood related products. Provide public service and other briefings as required. Interpret WSD-88D products and provide oversight and operate radar to ascertain the types of echoes, and associated hydrometeo parameters including macroscale, mesoscale, and microscale features. Participate in the obs program, including upper air and surface programs. Operate AWIPS and other communication systems to interpret and analyze model and other data sets. Prepare various hydrometeo obs, and assist with preparation of forecasts, and warning products for distribution to customers and other users. Operate NOAA Weather Radio and other dissemination systems. Participate and lead outreach events, office tours and visitations. Teach classes on general weather topics and meteorological related material to local schools and child development groups, as well as for the Boy Scouts of America’s Weather Merit Badge. Routinely brief and provide IDSS to core and local partners on developing situations, future and past events. Trained and supervised a summer college student volunteer on daily shift duties for public service, including observations, software, radar and the upper air program. Trained on GOES-R, Radar Applications, Warning Operations for Severe, Core, and Flash Flooding, Tropical Operations, Hazard Creation and Simplification, NOAA IT Security, Active Shooter, No Fear Act and BMH transmitter controls through AWIPS. Cover severe weather and tropical events, including extra shifts or 12 hour shifts when needed. Provided extra balloon releases and helped work radar for tropical ops. Rotating shift work, including weekends, nights, and holidays. Provide backup to other regional WFOs, including all hydrometeo products and services.

Provide 6-day forecasts, street-level nowcasting and decision support, basic climatology, on demand weather consultation, severe/winter weather coverage for private construction entities and City, County, State Street Departments. Monitor real time weather information, including NEXRAD, satellite, and current surface observations for nowcasting and decision support mainly using NWS and other NOAA derived products. Communicate directly with clients on changing weather conditions by being available on call. Provide warning and alert services to the customers as dictated contractually. Rely on high resolution model data for day 1 and day 2 forecasting, using such models as the High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR), NAM Nest, and the NSSL WRF for mesoscale phenomenon. Continuous collaboration with other meteorologists in the field to keep up on current mesoscale modeling advances.Leverage longer term models for forecasts beyond day 2 including the GFS, NAM, and derived MOS for those models as well as ensembles from EMC.Provide other meteorologists on the team detailed end shift briefings accompanied by graphical forecasts when appropriate.Kept archived forecasts for client verification records. Also maintained an archive of longer range forecasts and verified them against other major private companies to look for areas of improvement.Maintained a satellite feed for meteorological data coming into Burke Lakefront. Involved in troubleshooting, both the satellite equipment and Windows systems as needed. Worked with Cleveland, OH area journalists on articles pertaining to the weather, climate, and severe weather preparedness.Worked multiple shifts, days, nights, weekends, and holidays