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

Session 16: Tornado and Severe Storms Environments

Friday, 16 August 2002: 8:00 AM-9:59 AM
Organizer:  Ed Szoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ.
Papers:
  8:00 AM
Investigating derecho and supercell proximity soundings
Jeffry S. Evans, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and C. A. Doswell III

Poster PDF (195.4 kB)
  8:15 AM
A Database of Proximity Soundings for Significant Severe Thunderstorms, 1957–1993
Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. P. Craven

Poster PDF (439.8 kB)
  8:30 AM
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

Poster PDF (128.0 kB)
  8:45 AM
Hodograph variability within analytically modeled baroclinic waves
Peter C. Banacos, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK; and H. B. Bluestein

Poster PDF (349.1 kB)
  9:00 AM
Significant tornadoes in environments with relatively weak shear
Jonathan M. Davies, Private Meteorologist, Wichita, KS

http://members.cox.net/jdavies1/

Poster PDF (169.6 kB)
  9:15 AM
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

Poster PDF (160.5 kB)
 
16.7
The Hoisington Kansas Tornado, 2001: Examining a Possible Meso-scale Tropopause Fold in Near Proximity to a Tornadic Suercell

  9:30 AM
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

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
  9:45 AM
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

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ama/html/Violenttornadoes.html

Poster PDF (3.7 MB)