Welcome to the home page of the Pullman Point Weather Research Facility. The facility is located on Pullman Point on Twin Lakes, six miles east of the Leaf River and four miles west of Runnelstown, in the city of Petal, Mississippi, USA. We are roughly 60 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico located in Forrest County and within 3 miles of the western Perry County line. Our altitude is 275 feet above sea level verified by GPS.
Weather instrumentation is a combination of old school analog as well as state of the art digital. The Facility also houses instrumentation that is exclusive to less than a half dozen operations in the continental United States and the most advanced privately owned instrumentation in Southern Mississippi. We also hold Patent number 60/903,881 - Multi Dimensional Data Models for Tornado Prediction, which reflects our unique work in atmospheric research and goals.
Backed
with an onsite super computing cluster and multi mode communication links
with the outside world we supply information in live time for the purposes
of research and learning.
The facility is linked by networks to additional
computing clusters in Moses Lake, Washington and server farms in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The
Pullman Point Weather Research Facility is part of Pullman Geosciences
Inc. and is affiliated with the Glenda Project. Data is availble to storm chase team vehicles while on the
road and to research personnel on location at various terrain analysis
locations.
Storm
chase teams both on the west coast and in southern Mississippi are equipped
with rapid deployment instrument delivery systems. Our primary purpose
is to study the atmosphere, to learn and predict event evolution, to have
some fun in the process, and to save lives where possible.
The purpose of this website is to provide information in a centralized location for easy viewing and study. Our data rendered on these pages is a combination of local instrumentation and links and displays from multiple sources.
This website is not intended to be a replacement for government, emergency services, or local professional weather sources. Common sense will show however, that the highest level of reliable data aquisition processes are in place not only for good science, but in addition to the fact that storm chase crews life and safety is dependent on accuracy and timely updates.
Data
is aquired and network backup communication systems are in place with
an 8 satellite dish array located onsite.
UHF Two way communication is handled through antennas on Pullman Point:
EMF
readings of magnetic and electrical flow are received through an outside
reception coil unit. Wefax transmissions from the National Hurricane Center
in Miami are received with a traditional long wire short wave antenna. Depending
on conditions of the atmosphere and time of day, picture quality can very
from crystal clear to poor. Reliability of transmissions is dependent on
the New Orleans complex whom we are tuned into to receive. 
Polar
Orbiting Satellites supply pictures from low earth orbit twice per day (from
various sats). Depending on the orbit path reception quality varies. Pine
trees around our antenna are 100 ft in height so its not practical to have
a tall mast. Here is a polar orbit sat picture received in house of the
first tropical storm of the 2006 season Alberto: 
Interested
in looking at some of the data but can't open the files? Drop us a line
and we will show you where to locate and download the software programs.
For the latest in house news read the blog which is updated on an irregular
basis. Comments and emails are welcome! Email:
msstormcenter@pullman.net