Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part I: Storm Classification and Climatology

T. Smith, Bryan; L. Thompson, Richard; S. Grams, Jeremy; Broyles, Chris; E. Brooks, Harold

doi:10.1175/waf-d-11-00115.1

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Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part I: Storm Classification and Climatology

Published in Weather and Forecasting • May 1, 2012

Authors:

Bryan T. Smith

Richard L. Thompson

Jeremy S. Grams

Abstract

Abstract Radar-based convective modes were assigned to a sample of tornadoes and significant severe thunderstorms reported in the contiguous United States (CONUS) during 2003–11. The significant hail (≥2-in. diameter), significant wind (≥65-kt thunderstorm gusts), and tornadoes were filtered by the ...

Subject

Tornado

Supercell

Thunderstorm

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