Session 16A Severe Weather Climatology I

Thursday, 30 October 2008: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
North & Center Ballroom (Hilton DeSoto)
Host: 24th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Chair:
Philip N. Schumacher, NOAA/NWS, WFO Sioux Falls South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD

Papers:
1:30 PM
16A.1
On the relationship between preliminary and final tornado counts in the SPC database
Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. W. Carbin
Recorded presentation

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
Karl Jungbluth, NOAA/NWS, Des Moines, IA
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (2.5 MB)

2:00 PM
16A.3
Synoptic environments and convective modes associated with significant tornadoes in the contiguous United States
Richard L. Thompson, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Norman, OK ; and J. S. Grams and J. Prentice
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (702.5 kB)

2:15 PM
16A.4
A Comprehensive 5-year Severe Storm Environment Climatology for the Continental United States
Russell S. Schneider, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and A. R. Dean
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (555.5 kB)

2:30 PM
16A.5
Climatology of high lapse rates over North America (1974–2007)
Jason M. Cordeira, Univ. of Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and T. J. Galarneau Jr. and L. F. Bosart
Recorded presentation

2:45 PM
16A.6
Climatology of storm reports relative to upper-level jet streaks
Adam J. Clark, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and C. J. Schaffer, W. A. Gallus Jr., and K. Johnson-O'Mara
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (855.4 kB)

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