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

Session 12: tornadogenesis

Thursday, 15 August 2002: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Organizers:  Bob Davies-Jones, NOAA/NSSL and Cathy Finley, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley
Papers:
  8:00 AM
Tornadogenesis and tornado-vortex structure in a supercell
Howard B. Bluestein, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. C. Weiss, A. L. Pazmany, W. C. Lee, and M. Bell

  8:15 AM
The occurrence of rear-flank reflectivity maxima in the supercells of 2 June 1995
Erik N. Rasmussen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. S. Gilmore, J. M. Straka, and R. P. Davies-Jones

  8:30 AM
Observations of the formation of low-level rotation: The 5 June 2001 Sumner County, Kansas storm
David C. Dowell, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. P. Richardson and J. Wurman

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)
  8:45 AM
The Role of the Preexisting Boundry on tornadogenesis in the 27 May 1997 Central Texas Event
Adam L. Houston, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. B. Wilhelmson

http://redrock.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~ahous/Supercell-DC/

Poster PDF (370.5 kB)
  9:00 AM
Two Modes of Tornadogenesis In Storm A on 3 May 1999
Yvette P. Richardson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. Wurman

  9:15 AM
The structure and evolution of hook echoes during tornadogenesis as revealed by high resolution radar data
Michael A. Magsig, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and D. W. Burgess, D. C. Dowell, Y. P. Richardson, and J. M. Wurman

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)
  9:30 AM
Three-dimensional stability analyses of tornado-like vortices with secondary circulations
David S. Nolan, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and M. T. Montgomery

Poster PDF (99.1 kB)
  9:45 AM
Near-surface intensification during unsteady tornado evolution
D. C. Lewellen, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; and W. S. Lewellen

http://eiger.mae.wvu.edu

Poster PDF (194.6 kB)