The San Angelo, Texas, supercell of 31 May 1995: Visual observations and tornadogenesis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1269-1293

  Wakimoto, Roger M ^a   Murphy, Hanne V ^a   Cai, Huaqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STORMS;

INTENSIFICATION; MESOCYCLONES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CYCLONE; DOPPLER RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SUPERCELL; TORNADO;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442657586     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1269:TSATSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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