[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 82 (Friday, May 18, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E691]
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                     IN RECOGNITION OF MR. MARK FOX

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                        HON. MICHAEL C. BURGESS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 18, 2018

  Mr. BURGESS . Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the work of Mr. Mark 
Fox and congratulate him on his assignment as the new Meteorologist in 
Charge of the National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office in 
Amarillo, Texas. His expertise and wit will be greatly missed by North 
Texans.
   Mr. Fox is leaving his current position as the Warning & 
Coordination Meteorologist (WCM) for the NWS Forecast Office in Fort 
Worth, a position he has held since 2009. Previously, he worked for a 
decade as a broadcast meteorologist before joining the NWS in 1999. He 
earned his degree in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 
1989.
   As the WCM for the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Mr. Fox has fostered 
dynamic partnerships between the NWS and broadcast meteorologists, 
emergency management coordinators, elected officials, and the public. 
One of his primary responsibilities is to oversee the Weather Forecast 
Office's public awareness program to educate the public on severe 
weather. Since 2012, he has led the North Texas Integrated Warning 
Team, bringing professionals and emergency managers together to serve 
our community.
   In addition to analyzing data and predicting weather conditions, Mr. 
Fox's work takes him out into the field as he leads Weather & Flood 
Disaster Survey Teams to assess property damage after severe weather 
and determine what factors occurred during the weather event. He has 
been instrumental in introducing the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of 
the Atmosphere (CASA) radar to North Texas, and utilizing the data 
collected as one of the important tools that the NWS utilizes. He is 
the public face of the local NWS office and has delivered hundreds of 
storm spotter classes and briefings across the forty-six-counties 
covered by the NWS Fort Worth office.
   Mr. Fox has been a guest presenter several times at my annual 
Emergency Preparedness Summit, and he regularly addresses both The 
Texas Severe Storms Association's annual National Storm Conference and 
the Texas Department of Emergency Management annual conference. He also 
is an active member of the North Texas Chapter of the American 
Meteorological Society.
   It is my great privilege to recognize Mr. Mark Fox, Warning & 
Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service, for his 
commitment to the meteorological profession, his sincere dedication to 
the safety and well-being of his fellow North Texans, and his many 
years of exemplary public service.