[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 27, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E453]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        RECOGNITION FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF WILLIAM F. BUNTING

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                        HON. MICHAEL C. BURGESS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 27, 2012

  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor a remarkable 
individual, admired for his public service and expert contributions to 
meteorology and weather forecasting, Mr. William F. Bunting.
  Mr. Bunting is an esteemed veteran of his field. His more than 25 
years of experience has taken him across this land--from New York City 
to Lansing, MI to Norman, OK, to Kansas City, MO, and for the last 
decade to Fort Worth, TX. He has painstakingly forecast and monitored a 
number of major weather events during his time in the weather service, 
including the chain of 59 tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas in 1990, the 
Kansas City flash flood in the fall of 1998, and the urban tornado in 
downtown Fort Worth in 2000. Mr. Bunting's judgment and decision-making 
in weather forecasting and storm damage assessment has been of 
tremendous value in service to the public.
  Mr. Bunting has made significant contributions to research and public 
understanding of severe storms. He has assembled an extensive website 
of data to upper air soundings, surface analyses, and weather 
prediction satellite imagery. He has authored many papers on severe 
storms and climatic weather, lectured at more than a dozen weather 
warning workshops and conducted more than 500 presentations to spotter 
and emergency management groups, civic organizations, businesses and 
schools. There is no question that Bill Bunting has invested his 
knowledge and concerns to enhance the safety of hundreds of thousands 
of people.
  As Meteorologist in Charge at the National Weather Service's forecast 
office in Fort Worth, Mr. Bunting has supervised a staff of more than 
25 forecasters, technicians and support personnel and been responsible 
for all forecasts, weather advisories, watches and warnings for 46 
North Texas counties. Now, after 10 years in Fort Worth, Mr. Bunting is 
called to serve as Operations Branch Chief at the Storm Prediction 
Center in Oklahoma beginning in early April. We wish him well in this 
new position.
  It is my great privilege to recognize Mr. Bill Bunting, 
Meteorologist-in-Charge at the National Weather Service, for his 
commitment to people's safety, his dedication to the study and 
understanding of meteorology and for his service to the many citizens 
whose lives have been saved by being forewarned by his forecasts.

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