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

Joint Session 4 Other Significant Tornadoes and Future Prospects

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
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:  Daniel Miller, NOAA/NWS WFO Duluth, Minnesota
Papers:
  4:00 PM
Central North Carolina Tornadoes From the 16 April 2011 Outbreak
Matthew Parker, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. Blaes, G. Lackmann, and S. Yuter
  4:15 PM
Overview of the 24 May 2011 Tornado Outbreak
Kiel L. Ortega, Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK ; and H. Bluestein, D. W. Burgess, G. S. Garfield, J. G. LaDue, K. L. Manross, B. R. Smith, R. Smith, T. M. Smith, J. C. Snyder, and G. J. Stumpf
  4:30 PM
Rapid-Scan, X-Band, Mobile Doppler Radar Measurements of An EF-5 Tornado in Oklahoma on 24 May 2011
Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. C. Snyder, J. B. Houser, M. M. French, A. L. Pazmany, I. PopStefanija, and R. T. Bluth

  4:45 PM
Radar Input to Tornado Warnings: Where We've Been and Where We Might Go
Donald W. Burgess, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf
  5:00 PM
Mardi Gras 2011 Tornadoes in New Orleans
Kenneth Graham, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA
  5:15 PM