Climatology of heavy rain events in the United States from hourly precipitation observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1194-1201

  Brooks, Harold E ^a   Stensrud, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; FLASH FLOOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034127101     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<1194:COHREI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Baeck, M. L., and J. A. Smith, 1998: Rainfall estimation by the WSR-88D for heavy rainfall events. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 416-436.
2. Barnes, S. L., 1964: A technique for maximizing details in numerical weather maps. J. Appl. Meteor., 3, 396-409.
3. _, 1973: Mesoscale objective map analysis using weighted time series observations. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL NSSL-62, 60 pp. [NTIS COM-73-10781.]
4. Bosart, L. R., and F. Sanders, 1981: The Johnstown flood of July 1977: A long-lived convective storm. J. Atmos. Sci., 38, 1616-1642.
5. Caracena, F., R. A. Maddox, L. R. Hoxit, and C. F. Chappell, 1979: Mesoanalysis of the Big Thompson storm. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 1-17.
6. Doswell, C. A., III, H. E. Brooks, and R. A. Maddox, 1996: Flash flood forecasting: An ingredients-based approach. Wea. Forecasting, 11, 560-581.
7. Douglas, M. W., R. A. Maddox, K. W. Howard, and S. Reyes, 1993: The Mexican monsoon. J. Climate, 6, 1665-1677.
8. Groisman, P. Ya, and D. R. Legates, 1994: The accuracy of United States precipitation data. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 2 15-227.
9. Maddox, R. A., L. R. Hoxit, C. F. Chappell, and F. Caracena, 1978: Comparison of the meteorological aspects of the Big Thompson and Rapid City flash floods. Mon. Wea. Rev., 106, 375-389.
10. _, C. F. Chappell, and L. R. Hoxit, 1979: Synoptic and meso-alpha aspects of flash flood events. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 60, 115-123.
11. _, K. W. Howard, and C. L. Dempsey, 1997: Intense convective storms with little or no lightning over central Arizona: A case of inadvertent weather modification? J. Appl. Meteor., 36, 302-314.
12. Sheridan, S. C., J. F. Griffiths, and R. E. Orville, 1997: Warm season cloud-to-ground lightning-precipitation relationships in the south-central United States. Wea. Forecasting, 12, 449-458.
13. Smith, J. A., and A. A. Bradley, 1994: The space-time structure of extreme storm rainfall in the southern plains. J. Appl. Meteor., 33, 1402-1417.
14. Vieux, B. E., and P. B. Bedient, 1998: Estimation of rainfall for flood prediction from WSR-88D reflectivity: A case study, 17-18 October 1994. Wea. Forecasting, 13, 407-415.
15. Wetzel, P. J., W. R. Cotton, and R. L. McAnelly, 1983: A long-lived mesoscale convective complex. Part II: Evolution and structure of the mature complex. Mon. Wea. Rev., 111, 1919-1937.
16. Yoshizaki, M., and Y. Ogura, 1988: Two-and three-dimensional modeling studies of the Big Thompson storm. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 3700-3722.
17. Zrnic, D. S., 1996: Weather radar polarimetry-Trends toward operational applications. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 1529-1534.