Tornadoes without NWS warning

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 159-172

  Brotzge, J ^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

COUNTY WARNING AREAS; DATA SETS; DENSELY POPULATED REGIONS; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; PATH LENGTH; POPULATION DENSITIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTOR; STORM CLASSIFICATION; TORNADO WARNINGS; TRACK LENGTHS; WEATHER FORECAST OFFICES;

POPULATION STATISTICS; RADAR; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TORNADOES;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; NOWCASTING; STORM; TORNADO; WARNING SYSTEM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953597962     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222270.1     Document Type: Article

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