On completing his degree in 1962, he returned to Washington to become the Weather Bureau's Deputy Director of Research (Severe Storms), where he helped establish the National Severe Storms Project (later to become the National Severe Storms Laboratory).
完成他的学位后，他回到华盛顿，成为气象局的研究副局长（主管强风暴研究），在那里他帮助建立了国家强风暴计划（后来成为美国国家强风暴实验室）。