Session 5 Current theories of tornadogenesis

Wednesday, 12 January 2000: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Host: Symposium on VORTEX: What We Have Learned-Where We Must Go
Organizer:
Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO

Papers:
4:00 PM
5.1
Evidence for the role of barotropic processes in the rear flank downdraft in tornadogenesis
Jerry M. Straka, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. N. Rasmussen

4:30 PM
5.2
Does the hook echo instigate tornadogenesis?
Robert P. Davies-Jones, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

5:00 PM
5.3
On tornadogenesis failure
Jeff Trapp, NOAA/NSSL and NCAR/MMM, Boulder, CO

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