NWS tornado warnings with zero or negative lead times

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 140-154

  Brotzge, Jerald ^a   Erickson, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GEOGRAPHIC TREND; LEADTIME; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; POPULATION DENSITIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTOR; STORM MORPHOLOGY; TORNADO WARNINGS; WEATHER FORECAST OFFICES;

MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADAR; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TORNADOES;

FORECASTING METHOD; TORNADO; WARNING SYSTEM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 65849506998     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2007076.1     Document Type: Article

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