Abstract
A tornado warning strategy that combines storm environment information with Doppler radar data is proposed as a remedy for the inability to discriminate a storm that will produce a tornado and one that will not. For such a strategy to be successful, quantitative and qualitative differences between three tornadic and three nontornadic storms observed by Doppler radar during VORTEX are investigated. Data from the WSR-88D radar nearest to the storm supplement measurements of the airborne Doppler radar (ADR) and the C-band radar mounted on the P-3's lower fuselage. For nontornadic events, data from the nearest WSR-88D are used to identify times of maximum low-level rotational velocity and thus guide which ADR flight legs to analyze.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 522-523 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| State | Published - 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1997 28th Conference on Radar Meteorology - Austin, TX, USA Duration: Sep 7 1997 → Sep 12 1997 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1997 28th Conference on Radar Meteorology |
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| City | Austin, TX, USA |
| Period | 9/7/97 → 9/12/97 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atmospheric Science
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering