Charles A. Doswell III

Charles (Chuck) A. Doswell III (November 5, 1945 – January 18, 2025[2][3]) was an American meteorologist and thunderstorm researcher.

Doswell was an influential contributor, along with Leslie R. Lemon, to the modern understanding of the supercell, which was developed originally by Keith Browning.

[4] Doswell was called for military service in August 1969 and after basic training was assigned to the Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory at White Sands Missile Range, in New Mexico, for a study on fog modeling.

Having worked summers as a student at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC is now the National Severe Storms Laboratory), in Kansas City, Missouri, Doswell was hired as a Research Forecaster at the Techniques Development Unit (TDU) of NSSFC.

He retired from Federal Service in 2001 to join the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) at the University of Oklahoma where he taught part-time, too.