Severe Weather Links

• Severe Weather Features
  • Severe Weather Probabilities
  • Outflow boundaries on radar and satellite
  • Outflow Boundary on Cold Side of Warm Front and MCS
  • Outflow Boundary in Warm Sector and MCS
  • Outflow Boundary on Warm Side of Warm Front Generates New Storms
  • Seasonal Development of Dryline
  • Miscellaneous Pages
  • A Convective Storm Matrix (COMET Tutorial)
• CAPE, Hodographs, Helicity and Shear
  • CAPE Equations Review
  • COMET Modules: Buoyancy, Using Hodograph and Relationship of Shear to Convective Storm Type
  • A Review for Forecasters on the Application of Hodographs to Forecasting Severe Thunderstorms
  • Helicity and Shear Tutorial and Inclass Laboratory and PDF
  • Plymouth State Historical Sounding Archive (1999-Present) and (1957-1998)
  • A direct measure of the vertical level shear's contribution to a rotating updraft: deep layer shear and helicity
  • Horizontal Convective Rolls: Helicity in the boundary layer example and high res sat
  • Pressure Perturbation Forces Augmenting Updraft: A Review with Examples
  • Radar Tutorial (Vasquez, Weather Map Handbook, pp 54-83)
  • Deviate Motion and Conceptual Diagram
  • CA Tornadic Thunderstorms and Shear
• Thunderstorms (Reading, Bluestein Vol II, pp. 431-538)
  Thunderstorm Handout
  Common (Single Cell) Thunderstorms
  Stages in Development of Single Cell Thunderstorms
  Thunderstorm Handout: Single Cell Non-severe vs Severe
  Hail Growth
  Multicells and Supercell
  Thunderstorm Handout: Multicell Thunderstorm
  Supercell Thunderstorms
  Supercell I
  Supercell II
  Supercell Schematic
  Reflectivity April 20 and Animation
  Supercell Cascade A and B
  Supercells....May 7, 2002
  Tinker Air Force Base Observations
  Rotating Thunderstorms on Radar
  Laplata, MD Tornadic Supercell
  • Thunderstorm Types: Radar Signatures