Session 16A |
| Severe Weather Climatology I |
| Chair: Philip N. Schumacher, NOAA/NWS, Sioux Falls, SD
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| 1:30 PM | 16A.1 | On the relationship between preliminary and final tornado counts in the SPC database ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. W. Carbin |
| 1:45 PM | 16A.2 | Re-creation of historic Iowa EF-5 tornado environments using high-resolution workstation WRF output initialized with NCEP Reanalysis grids ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Karl Jungbluth, NOAA/NWSFO, Des Moines, IA |
| 2:00 PM | 16A.3 | Synoptic environments and convective modes associated with significant tornadoes in the contiguous United States ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Richard L. Thompson, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Norman, OK ; and J. S. Grams and J. Prentice |
| 2:15 PM | 16A.4 | A Comprehensive 5-year Severe Storm Environment Climatology for the Continental United States ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Russell S. Schneider, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and A. R. Dean |
| 2:30 PM | 16A.5 | Climatology of high lapse rates over North America (1974–2007) ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Jason M. Cordeira, Univ. of Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and T. J. Galarneau and L. F. Bosart |
| 2:45 PM | 16A.6 | Climatology of storm reports relative to upper-level jet streaks ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Adam J. Clark, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and C. J. Schaffer, W. A. Gallus, and K. Johnson-O'Mara |