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Sept
01 , 2001
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an
online newsletter for and by NOAA employees
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Dwight C. Lee, a NOAA contractor and field engineer, is September’s Team 
Member of the Month. Over the past several years, Dwight’s consistently
excellent support for the National Weather Service’s Radar Operations
Center in Norman, Oklahoma has made the difference in promptly resolving
a number of especially difficult radar outages. Radar serves as a forecaster’s
eyes. As the cornerstone of the National Weather Service’s warning process,
radar enables a forecaster to see into a storm and detect and track severe
weather. Working with NOAA staff and other contractors, Dwight’s expert field engineering services recently restored two WSR-88D weather radars to full operation after catastrophic failures. These failures were the first of their type in more than a decade of operations. By working 12-15 hours daily, for nine days straight, Dwight restored the radar to effective operation – and completed the job in Little Rock, Arkansas three days ahead of schedule. Less than 18 hours later, Dwight was on-site at Texas’ Laughlin Air Force Base, assessing WSR-88D radome destroyed by severe wind and hail. Radome houses the indispensable radar antenna structure. Along with NOAA’s Radar Operations Center team, Dwight stayed on-site to help other contractors remove the damaged radome and disassemble the antenna. When new radome was delivered, he helped reassemble it. After over a week of 12-hour work days in 100+ degree heat, Dwight and the team secured the radar antenna and prevented further damage. The radar was fully operational on schedule. Dwight also actively supports local charities and city schools, where he has helped install classroom computers. These and other examples demonstrate why Dwight C. Lee is being honored as NOAA’s Team Member of the Month. |
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