A five-year climatology of elevated severe convective storms in the United States east of the Rocky mountains

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Horgan, Katherine L ^a   Schultz, David M ^b   Johns, Robert H ^c   Corfidi, Stephen F ^a   Hales, John E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NOAA/Storm Prediction Center ^*

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