Severe convective windstorms over the northern High Plains of the United States

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 502-519

  Klimowski, Brian A ^a   Bunkers, Matthew J ^a   Hjelmfelt, Mark R ^b   Covert, Josiah N ^b  

^a National Weather Service   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); THUNDERSTORMS; WIND;

WINDSTORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; SEVERE WEATHER; SQUALL LINE; THUNDERSTORM; WIND VELOCITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0043123410     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)18<502:SCWOTN>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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