The association of significant tornadoes with a baroclinic boundary on 2 June 1995

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 174-191

  Rasmussen, Erik N ^a,b   Richardson, Scott ^a   Straka, Jerry M ^a   Markowski, Paul M ^a   Blanchard, David O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Bldg 3 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC ATMOSPHERE; TORNADO; VORTICITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034108377     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<0174:TAOSTW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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