The 19 April 1996 Illinois tornado outbreak. Part I: Cell evolution and supercell isolation

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 433-448

  Lee, Bruce D ^a   Jewett, Brian F ^b   Wilhelmson, Robert B ^b  

^a Product Research and Development at NextEra Analytics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FLOW INTERACTIONS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STORMS; TORNADOES;

ANTICYCLONIC SUPERCELLS; CELL EVOLUTION; CELL-TYPE INITIATION ANALYSIS; STORM MERGERS; SUPERCELL ISOLATION; TORNADOGENESIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CYCLOGENESIS; SUPERCELL; TORNADO;

ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748544254     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF944.1     Document Type: Article

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