Session: The 31 May 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma Tornadoes: A tribute to Tim Samaras, Carl Young, and Paul Samaras (27th Conference on Severe Local Storms)

Thursday, 6 November 2014: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Madison Ballroom (Madison Concourse Hotel)

Host: 27th Conference on Severe Local Storms

Cochairs:

Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/Earth Systems Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO and Karen A. Kosiba, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO

Papers:

9:00 AM

13.1

Ground-based Damage Survey and Radar Analysis of the El Reno, Oklahoma Tornado

Timothy P. Marshall, Haag Engineering Co., Irving, TX; and D. W. Burgess, G. S. Garfield, J. C. Snyder, R. Smith, D. Speheger, and H. Bluestein

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.5 MB)

9:15 AM

13.2

The El Reno Tornado: Mobile Polarimetric Radar Data and Photogrammetric Analysis

Roger Wakimoto, NSF, Arlington, VA; and N. T. Atkins, K. M. Butler, H. B. Bluestein, K. J. Thiem, J. C. Snyder, and J. Houser

9:30 AM

13.3

Aerial Damage Survey and High Resolution Dual-Polarization Radar Analysis of the 2013 El Reno Tornado

Nolan T. Atkins, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and R. Wakimoto, K. M. Butler, H. B. Bluestein, K. J. Thiem, J. C. Snyder, J. Houser, and J. Wurman

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

13.4

Rapid-scan, polarimetric, mobile, Doppler-radar observations of the formation, evolution, and structure of the El Reno tornado of 31 May 2013

Kyle J. Thiem, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. B. Bluestein, J. C. Snyder, and J. Houser

Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM

13.5

The El Reno Survey Project: Crowd-sourced Database Development, Synchronous Photogrammetric Observations and 3-D Mapping of the Largest Documented Tornado

Anton Seimon, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC; and J. T. Allen, T. Seimon, E. Edwards, S. Talbot, and D. Hoadley

Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM