Session 13 Tornado Vortex Dynamics and Genesis

Thursday, 9 November 2006: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
St. Louis AB (Adam's Mark Hotel)
Host: 23rd Conference on Severe Local Storms
Chair:
Paul M. Markowski, Penn State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA

Papers:
10:30 AM
13.1
Using a low-order model to detect and characterize tornadoes in multiple-Doppler radar data
Corey K. Potvin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. Shapiro, T. Y. Yu, and M. Xue
Recorded presentation

10:45 AM
13.2
The Role of Hook Echo Microbursts in Simulated Tornadic Supercells. Part I Association with counter-rotating vortices and tornadogenesis
Leigh Orf, Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI; and M. S. Gilmore, R. B. Wilhelmson, J. M. Straka, and E. N. Rasmussen
Recorded presentation

11:00 AM
13.3
The Role of Hook Echo Microbursts in Simulated Tornadic Supercells. Part II: Sensitivity to Microphysics Parameterization
Matthew S. Gilmore, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and L. Orf, R. B. Wilhelmson, J. M. Straka, and E. N. Rasmussen
Recorded presentation

11:15 AM
13.4
Precipitation-independent supercell tornadogenesis
Adam L. Houston, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. D. Parker
Recorded presentation

11:30 AM
13.5
On the limits to near-surface intensification of tornado vortices
D. C. Lewellen, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and W. S. Lewellen
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (350.8 kB)

11:45 AM
13.6
A conceptual dual-polarization framework for the 8 May 2003 Oklahoma City tornadic supercell
Glen S. Romine, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. W. Burgess and R. B. Wilhelmson
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (1.7 MB)

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