1. Jalen Heyward

2.  Thunder storm- storm that produce lightning and thunder  2 major components precipitation and wind speed/ gusts  Important for safety matters and agriculture How has storm intensity changed throughout the years in North Carolina?

3.  $485 billion in damage from storms in General. (National Weather Service, 2011)  Storm intensity is important to know for our economy.  Hypothesis: If storm intensity changed through out the year then the intensity would increase

4.  Stanly County Airport( KVUJ)  Upper Piedmont Research stn (Reidsville, REID)  Upper Mountain ResearchStn (Laurel springs, LAUR)  Bearwallow Mountain (Hendersonville, BEAR)  Central Crops Research station(Clayton, CLAY)  Pamlico Aquaculture Field Lab (Aurora, AURO)  Border Belt Tobacco Res stn ( Whiteville, WHIT)

5.  Ten years of data  maximum wind speed  maximum wind Gust  total precipitation  maximum precipitation

6.  Collected data from the different stations  Convert hourly data to daily data  Maximum wind speed,  Maximum wind gust,  maximum precipitation,  Total precipitation.  Graphed each data sets in time  Calculated coefficient of variance( R 2 ), trend

7. Trend line decreases

8. Trend line slightly increases

9. Trend Line 0 slope

10. Trend line slightly decreases

14. Trend line has 0 slope

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16. Trend line slightly increases

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20. Trend line increase s

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30. Trend line slightly decreases

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32. Trend line decreases

33. Trend line slightly decreases

37.  Maximum Windspeed= Trend line Decrease  Maximum Precipitation= Trendline Increase  Total precipitation= Trendline decrease  Maximum Wind gust= Trend line increase  Neither increasing or decreasing storm intensity.  Results don’t support hypothesis.

38.  Data = variable  How Much money was involved?  Look at surface analysis  Reports of tornadoes, wind, and Hail  Looking at a much longer period

39.  Thank you to the NC State Climate office  Thank you Adrienne and the other mentors for mentoring me.