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Steve Rinard,
Meteorologist-In-Charge, Retires
Roger
Erickson, Warning Coordination Meteorologist
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Steve Rinard, Meteorologist-In-Charge of the National Weather
Service office in Lake Charles since 1997, retired on January
3rd, 2007.
Steve’s weather career began in 1967 as a Meteorologist Intern
at the Weather Service Office in Abilene, Texas. In 1967, he
moved to the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterrey,
California, to work as a meteorologist instructor and research
assistant. He rejoined the National Weather Service as a
forecaster at the Weather Service Forecast Office in Seattle,
Washington, in 1979. While there, he was influential in
conducting the first regional tsunami workshop for emergency
responders. |
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In
1987, he was promoted to Southern Region Headquarters in Fort
Worth, Texas, where he was instrumental in the commissioning of
the WSR-88D Doppler radars. Steve initiated the first Cooperative
Institute for Applied Meteorological Studies (CIAMS) project
between Southern Region Headquarters and the Texas A&M
University Department of Atmospheric Science. He greatly
enhanced the modernization of the marine program through his
educational
COMET module and the Marine Forecaster Guide and Reference
Manual. This was applied in an operational setting when Steve
served as the Meteorologist-In-Charge of the Savannah, Georgia,
office during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. |
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Steve was selected as the Meteorologist-In-Charge for the Lake
Charles Weather Forecast Office in 1997. While here, he helped WFO Lake Charles become a forerunner in the NWS for incident
forecasting during HAZMAT events. Before Amber Alerts were used
nationwide, he helped develop an abducted child warning system
called Save Our Kids (SOK). After Hurricane Rita in 2005, only
one fatality was attributed to the storm, a testimony to his
leadership in warning the public and leaders of the communities
to take protective action before the hazardous weather occurred.
Please join us in congratulating Steve on his retirement! |
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