Meteorological aspects of south-central and southwestern New Mexico and far western Texas flash floods

National Weather Digest, Dec, 2003 by Joseph Rogash

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Joseph Rogash

NOAA/National Weather Service Forecast Office

El Paso, Texas

Author

Joseph Rogash is currently a lead forecaster at the National Weather Service Forecast Office (NWSFO) in El Paso, Texas. He has previously been a lead forecaster at the NWS Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, at the NWSFO in Memphis, Tennessee, and for the Department of Defense at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. He has also been an adjunct professor of meteorology at Memphis State University. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Massachusetts in 1980 and completed his M.S. degree in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University in 1982. His main interests are severe thunderstorm and flash flood forecasting and he has written a number of papers on these topics.