Session 16 |
| | Tornado and Severe Storms Environments |
| | Organizer: Ed Szoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO
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| 8:00 AM | 16.1 | Investigating derecho and supercell proximity soundings 
Jeffry S. Evans, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and C. A. Doswell |
| 8:15 AM | 16.2 | A Database of Proximity Soundings for Significant Severe Thunderstorms, 1957–1993
Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. P. Craven |
| 8:30 AM | 16.3 | Baseline Climatology of Sounding Derived Parameters Associated with Deep, Moist Convection
Jeffrey P. Craven, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks and J. A. Hart |
| 8:45 AM | 16.4 | Hodograph variability within analytically modeled baroclinic waves
Peter C. Banacos, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK; and H. B. Bluestein |
| 9:00 AM | 16.5 | Significant tornadoes in environments with relatively weak shear
Jonathan M. Davies, Private Meteorologist, Wichita, KS |
| 9:15 AM | 16.6 | A Preliminary Investigation of Supercell Longevity
Matthew J. Bunkers, NOAA/NWSFO, Rapid City, SD; and J. S. Johnson, J. M. Grzywacz, L. J. Czepyha, and B. A. Klimowski |
|  | 16.7 | The Hoisington Kansas Tornado, 2001: Examining a Possible Meso-scale Tropopause Fold in Near Proximity to a Tornadic Suercell
Jim Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Dodge City, KS, Dodge City, KS; and E. Rasmussen, A. Pietrycha, and J. Finch |
| 9:29 AM | 16.7a | Synoptic and mesoscale patterns associated with violent tornadoes across separate geographic regions of the United States: part I—surface characteristics (Formerly Paper JP1.4)
Chris Broyles, NOAA/NWS, Amarillo, TX; and N. Dipasquale and R. Wynne |
| 9:44 AM | 16.8 | An examination of the contrasting evolution of two southeast United States cool-season severe weather episodes
Alicia C. Wasula, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart, R. Schneider, and R. H. Johns |