21st Conf. on Severe Local Storms and 19th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction

Session 11A: Lightning Studies

Wednesday, 14 August 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Organizers:  Bill Beasley, University of Oklahoma and Matt Gilmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL
Papers:
  4:30 PM
Lightning relative to precipitation and tornadoes in a supercell storm during MEaPRS
Don MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. Rust, O. van der Velde, M. Askelson, P. Krehbiel, R. Thomas, W. Rison, T. Hamlin, and J. Harlin

  4:45 PM
Preliminary results from the North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array
Eugene W. McCaul Jr., USRA, Huntsville, AL; and J. Bailey, S. J. Goodman, R. Blakeslee, J. Hall, D. E. Buechler, and T. Bradshaw

  5:00 PM
A relationship between a surface theta-e ridge and dominant lightning polarity
Nettie R. Lake, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and D. R. MacGorman

Poster PDF (63.0 kB)
  5:15 PM
Development of predictors for cloud-to-ground lightning activity using atmospheric stability indices
Kenneth C. Venzke, Air Force Institute of Technology, Keesler AFB, MS; and R. P. Lowther

  5:30 PM
Tornado signatures and precursor activity from 3-D lightning mapping observations
T. Hamlin, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and J. D. Harlin

Poster PDF (585.1 kB)
  5:45 PM
Lightning Meteorology II: An advanced course on forecasting with lightning data
Bard A. Zajac, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. F. Weaver, D. E. Bikos, and D. T. Lindsey

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Poster PDF (220.6 kB)