Session 8B |
| | Near-Surface Tornado Winds and Tornado
Damage |
| | Chair: Robin L. Tanamachi, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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| 1:30 PM | 8B.1 | Using simulated tornado surface marks to help decipher near-ground wind fields  
D. C. Lewellen, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and M. I. Zimmerman |
| 1:45 PM | 8B.2 | Determination of tornado intensity from forest damage
Veronika Beck, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany; and N. Dotzek |
| 2:00 PM | 8B.3 | Damage survey and deduction of vortex structure of the Greensburg, KS tornado
Timothy P. Marshall, Haag Engineering Co., Irving, TX; and D. McCarthy, J. G. LaDue, J. Wurman, C. R. Alexander, P. Robinson, and K. A. Kosiba |
| 2:15 PM | 8B.4 | Deployments of a 12-site in situ Wind/T/RH instrument array in tornadoes
Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO |
| 2:30 PM | 8B.5 | Derivation of physically motivated wind speed scales - the E-scale concept
Nikolai Dotzek, DLR, Wessling, Germany |
| 2:45 PM | 8B.6 | Experiences in using the EF-Scale since its inception
James G. LaDue, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK ; and K. L. Ortega |