92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Joint Session 1 April 27-28 Tornado Outbreak Part I

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room 252/253 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011; and the Major Weather Impacts of 2011 )
Chair:  Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/NCEP/SPC
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Radar Overview and Visual Documentation of the 27 April 2011 Tornadic Outbreak
Todd A. Murphy, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and T. A. Coleman, R. A. Wade, and K. R. Knupp
  8:45 AM
Diagnosing Total Track Length of Simulated Rotating Storms From Convection-Allowing Ensemble Forecasts for the 27 April Super-Outbreak
Adam Clark, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. T. Marsh, J. Correia Jr., J. Gao, J. S. Kain, M. Xue, and F. Kong

  9:15 AM
Analysis of the N Alabama MCV on the Morning of 27 April 2011
Stephanie Mullins, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and K. Knupp
  9:30 AM
High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Forecast Evaluation of Tornado Events in April and May of 2011
Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, D. C. Dowell, E. P. James, J. M. Brown, P. Hofmann, T. G. Smirnova, and B. D. Jamison
  9:45 AM