Session 20B Organized Convection and Severe Phenomena 4: Tornadoes

Thursday, 31 August 2017: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Vevey (Swissotel Chicago)
Host: 38th Conference on Radar Meteorology
Cochairs:
Casey Griffin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norman, OK and Zachary B. Wienhoff, Univ. of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK

Fourth session on studies of impactful events including multi-instrument and multi-platform retrievals (e.g., Multi-Doppler). Covers many scales from tornadoes and microbursts to winter events and hurricanes. Focus on Tornadoes.

Papers:
8:00 AM
20B.1
The TWIRL (Tornado Winds from In-situ and Radars at Low-level) Project: Project Overview and Combined Radar-in Situ-damage Analyses
Karen A. Kosiba, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO; and J. Wurman and P. Robinson

8:15 AM
20B.2
Examination of the Relationships between Polarimetric Radar Signatures and Kinematic Processes Using High-Resolution WRF Simulations
David J. Bodine, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. B. Griffin and K. L. Rasmussen
Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM
20B.3
The Role of Horizontal Shearing Instability in Mesovortexgenesis in the 04 January 2015 Quasi-Linear Convective System
Dustin M. Conrad, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
20B.4
The 29-30 November 2016 Northern Alabama Tornado Outbreak, Part 1: Radar and Vertical Profiling Observations of a Complex Supercell Mesocyclone
Carter B. Hulsey, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. Knupp, A. W. Lyza, and R. A. Wade
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
20B.5
The 29-30 November 2016 Northern Alabama Tornado Outbreak, Part 2: Radar, Profiler, and In-Situ Observations of the Role of Topography in Supercell and Tornado Environmental Evolution
Anthony W. Lyza, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and C. B. Hulsey, R. Wade, and K. Knupp
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
20B.6
Recent Results Using RaXPol to Document Tornadogenesis and Recent Upgrades to the Radar
Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. L. Cheong, Z. B. Wienhoff, D. W. Reif, and K. J. Thiem
Recorded Presentation

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