Editing Storm Prediction Center (section)

===Brief history timeline===
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*1948: Following [[National Weather Service|Weather Bureau]] (WB) researchers' work by on a 20 March tornado at [[Tinker Air Force Base|Tinker AFB]], two officers (Fawbush and Miller) successfully predict another one five days later on 25 March at same base, given responsibility for AF tornado predictions.
*1951: Severe Weather Warning Center (SWWC) established as an [[557th Weather Wing#Lineage|Air Weather Service]] unit, headed by Fawbush and Miller.
*1952: WB establishes its own Weather Bureau-Army-Navy (WBAN) Analysis Center in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] in March as a trial unit, made permanent on 21 May as the Weather Bureau Severe Weather Unit (SWU).
*1953: SWU renamed <u>Se</u>vere <u>L</u>ocal <u>S</u>torm (SELS) Warning Center on 17 June.
*1954: SELS relocates from the WBAN Center in Washington to the WB's District Forecast Office (DFO) in downtown [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] in September.
*1955: National Severe Storms Project (NSSP) formed SELS' as research component.
*1958: SELS assumes authority for all public severe weather forecasts.
*1962: Some from NSSP move to [[Norman, Oklahoma|Norman]]'s Weather Radar Laboratory to work with a new Weather Surveillance Radar-1957 (WSR-57).
*1964: Remainder of NSSP moves to Norman and is reorganized as National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). 
*1965: Environmental Science Services Administration ([[NOAA|ESSA]]) formed, and entire WB office (SELS and DFO) in Kansas City renamed National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC).
*1976: Techniques Development Unit (TDU) established in April to provide software development and evaluate forecast methods.
*1995: NSSFC renamed Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in October.
*1997: SPC moves from [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] to [[Norman, Oklahoma|Norman]].
*2006: SPC moves a few miles south to the National Weather Center (NWC) on the [[University of Oklahoma#Research campus|University of Oklahoma Research Campus]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spc.noaa.gov/history/early.html|title = A Brief History of the Storm Prediction Center}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spc.noaa.gov/history/timeline.html|title=Time Line of SELS and SPC|access-date=2020-01-23|archive-date=2020-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200318201118/https://www.spc.noaa.gov/history/timeline.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/about/history/|title=NSSL History|access-date=2020-01-23|archive-date=2020-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115005312/https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/about/history/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Corfidi |first=Stephen F. |date=1999-08-01 |title=The Birth and Early Years of the Storm Prediction Center |url=https://www.spc.noaa.gov/publications/corfidi/birthspc.pdf |journal=Weather and Forecasting |language=EN |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=507–525 |doi=10.1175/1520-0434(1999)014<0507:TBAEYO>2.0.CO;2 |bibcode=1999WtFor..14..507C |issn=1520-0434}}</ref>
*2023: Meteorologist Liz Leitman becomes the first woman at the SPC to issue a convective weather watch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.5newsonline.com/article/weather/liz-leitman-history-first-female-severe-weather-warning/527-9169fd3b-5633-4e82-956a-c92f5de63568|title=Stormcaller Liz Leitman makes history as first female to issue severe weather warning|date=17 February 2023|access-date=20 February 2023|archive-date=20 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230220181303/https://www.5newsonline.com/article/weather/liz-leitman-history-first-female-severe-weather-warning/527-9169fd3b-5633-4e82-956a-c92f5de63568|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/us/elizabeth-leitman-storm-watch.html|title = In a First, a Woman Issues a Thunderstorm Watch, Officials Say| work=The New York Times | date=18 February 2023 | last1=Jones | first1=Judson }}</ref>
*2024: On February 15, 2024, Leitman became the first woman meteorologist to issue a [[severe thunderstorm watch]].<ref>{{cite news |title=In a First, a Women Issues a Thunderstorm Watch, Officials Say |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/us/elizabeth-leitman-storm-watch.html |work=New York Times |date=18 February 2023 |access-date=5 April 2024 |last1=Jones |first1=Judson }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Bates |first1=Sabrina |title=STEM Spotlight: Storm Prediction Center meteorologist makes history for women |url=https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-stem-spotlight-storm-prediction-center-meteorologist-makes-history-for-women/60192347 |website=KOCO |access-date=5 April 2024 |language=en |date=20 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Storm Prediction Center meteorologist became first woman to issue Severe Thunderstorm Watch |url=https://www.foxweather.com/watch/play-6ffeedab4001102 |publisher=[[Fox Weather]] |access-date=5 April 2024 |archive-date=5 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240405161155/https://www.foxweather.com/watch/play-6ffeedab4001102 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A conversation with Oklahoma meteorologist Liz Leitman, the first woman to issue a thunderstorm watch |url=https://www.kosu.org/energy-environment/2023-02-28/a-conversation-with-oklahoma-meteorologist-liz-leitman-the-first-woman-to-issue-a-thunderstorm-watch |website=KOSU |language=en |date=28 February 2023}}</ref>
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