NOAA Severe Weather Experts Consulted for CBS Mini-Series

Producers of the CBS mini-series, Category 6: Day of Destruction, consulted meteorologists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Norman, Okla., to make the program more accurate. Dr. Joseph Schaefer, director of the NOAA Storm Prediction Center, and Dr. Harold Brooks, research meteorologist with the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, reviewed scripts of the production and provided suggestions to the writers. In addition, director Dick Lowry visited the NOAA Weather Partners and met with local meteorologists in the summer to take photos for set designs and learn about severe weather research and forecasting.

Several scenes of the movie take place in a location modeled after the Storm Prediction Center in Norman. Jason Levit, SPC techniques development meteorologist, provided weather graphics for use in the set.

From the CBS news release: Category 6: Day of Destruction, a new four-hour event mini-series starring Nancy McKeon ("The Division"),

Thomas Gibson ("Dharma & Greg"), Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy ("Death of A Salesman"), Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest ("Bullets Over

Broadway"), and Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Randy Quaid ("Independence Day") was broadcasted as the

"CBS Sunday Movie" on Sunday, Nov. 14 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) and Wednesday, Nov. 17 (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television

Network. The natural disaster drama is about three enormous weather systems that ultimately collide over Chicago, creating the worst super-storm in the nation's history -- but only after they first cause the national power grid to collapse, making it impossible to warn anyone about the impending disaster.

The Web site for the movie: http://www.cbs.com/specials/category_6_day_destruction/