Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part II: Supercell and QLCS Tornado Environments

L. Thompson, Richard; T. Smith, Bryan; S. Grams, Jeremy; R. Dean, Andrew; Broyles, Chris

doi:10.1175/waf-d-11-00116.1

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Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part II: Supercell and QLCS Tornado Environments

Published in Weather and Forecasting • Apr 23, 2012

Authors:

Richard L. Thompson

Bryan T. Smith

Jeremy S. Grams

Abstract

Abstract A sample of 22 901 tornado and significant severe thunderstorm events, filtered on an hourly 40-km grid, was collected for the period 2003–11 across the contiguous United States (CONUS). Convective mode was assigned to each case via manual examination of full volumetric radar data (Part I o...

Subject

Tornado

Supercell

Mesocyclone

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