Come visit the P3 Orion “Hurricane Hunter” aircraft

in person!

What: East Coast Hurricane Awareness Tour, with the crew

from the Hurricane Hunter aircraft and staff from the

National Hurricane Center/Tropical Prediction Center

in Miami, Florida

When: Monday, April 30, 2007

Public Tour times: 3 PM to 6 PM

Where: Quonset State Airport

210 Airport St.

N. Kingstown, RI

Theme: “Be Aware…Be Prepared!”

The National Weather Service in Taunton, Massachusetts, will host the first stop of the 2007 East Coast Hurricane Awareness Tour at Quonset State Airport in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Information stations will also be set up near the plane so you can learn about hurricane safety and preparedness.

There will also be a full day’s worth of activities for public safety officials and middle school students from the West Bay area, including pre-scheduled briefings hosted by the Quonset Point Air National Guard Base, along with a host of media from across Southern New England.

Everyone is cordially invited to attend the public tour between 3 and 6 PM .

 

In preparation for the visit, there will be a live broadcast on all NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards stations run by the National Weather Service in Taunton .  The show, entitled “Dinner with Dunham,” will air on Monday, April 23 at 630 PM.  The program will be hosted by Alan Dunham, Observation Program Manager at the NWS Taunton office. 

 

MEDIA:  Please contact Glenn Field at the National Weather Service in Taunton to set up interview times with members from the National Hurricane Center media relations team that will be on site, including Director Bill Proenza, Senior Hurricane Specialist Richard Knabb PhD, and Hurricane Specialist Michelle Mainelli.

Information stations will include:

Ø    National Weather Service and Northeast River Forecast Center, Taunton, MA

Ø     NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards

Ø     NOAA 200th Anniversary celebration

Ø     National Ocean Service/Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and Office of Coastal Survey

Ø     Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

Ø     American Red Cross of Rhode Island

Ø     University of Rhode Island – Graduate School of Oceanography

Ø     Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency Mobile Command Post

Ø     Amateur Radio Clubs from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire – Live communications with the National Hurricane Center!

For more information about the Hurricane Awareness Tour, the Hurricane Hunters and the other information available during the Quonset Point visit, please check out our Partners websites.

For directions to Quonset State Airport and parking information, please click here.