Observational analysis of the 27 May 1997 central Texas tornadic event. Part II: Tornadoes

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 727-735

  Houston, Adam L ^a,b   Wilhelmson, Robert B ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; OBSERVABILITY; STORMS; TORNADOES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; STORM-GENERATED GUST; TORNADIC EVENT;

METEOROLOGY;

ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY LAYER; CYCLOGENESIS; FORMATION MECHANISM; GUST; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUPERCELL; TORNADO;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34047237886     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3301.1     Document Type: Article

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