National Weather Service Springfield Missouri - Floodplain Model

Education
Staff from the National Weather Service Office in Springfield Missouri will use the Ward's Floodplain Model to demonstrate how rain water interacts with different landscapes and river channels within a drainage basin.

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Megan Terry

Megan Terry has been the Service Hydrologist at the National Weather Service in Springfield, Missouri since 2009. Her duties include keeping records on all rainfall, flash flooding and river flooding across 37 counties in the Missouri Ozarks and southeast Kansas, coordinating with other water-monitoring agencies, such as the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers, and maintaining the NWS Springfield Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services (AHPS) Website. Megan holds degrees in Geography from Louisiana State University, and Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to being a Hydrologist, Megan was a forecaster with the National Weather Service offices in Norman, Oklahoma and Springfield.

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NWS promotes outreach and education of flooding for safety purposes.