National Weather Service Director Visits Lincoln NWS Office

On October 6th, the Lincoln NWS was visited by Dr. Louis Uccellini. He is NOAA's Assistant Administrator for Weather Services, which is also known as the Director of the National Weather Service. This was the first visit that an NWS director has paid to our office. Our office briefed him on the wide variety of work we do to serve the public and the emergency management agencies of central and southeast Illinois. In turn, he spoke to us on the latest regarding the evolution of the NWS's model of operations toward providing Impact-based Decision Support Services. While he was here, he participated in launching our evening weather balloon and radiosonde. (For the record, his balloon reached a height of 109,367 feet before bursting.)