Session 8 Tornadoes And Tornadogenesis (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

Wednesday, 13 September 2000: 3:30 PM-4:30 PM
Host: 20th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Organizers:
John T. Snow, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and David C. Lewellen, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV

Papers:
3:30 PM
8.1
A simple thermodynamical theory for tornadoes
Nilton Renno, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

3:45 PM
8.2
Nonaxisymmetric, unsteady tornadic corner flows
David C. Lewellen, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and W. S. Lewellen and J. Xia

4:00 PM
8.3
Can the hook echo instigate tornadogenesis barotropically?
Robert Davies-Jones, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

4:15 PM
8.4
Preliminary investigation of tornadogenesis within quasi-linear convective systems
R. Jeffrey Trapp, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO; and M. L. Weisman

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