A climatology of fatal convective wind events by storm type

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 109-121

  Schoen, Joseph M ^a   Ashley, Walker S ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Damage assessment; Severe storms; Societal impacts; Tornadoes

Indexed keywords

ALABAMA; BOW ECHOES; CLUSTER OF CELLS; CONVECTIVE STORMS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DAMAGE ASSESSMENT; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; GEORGIA; GREAT LAKES; MISSISSIPPI; MISSOURIS; MITIGATION STRATEGY; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MORPHOLOGY CLASSIFICATION; SEVERE STORMS; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SQUALL LINES; STORM CLASSIFICATION; SUPER CELL; TORNADIC SUPERCELLS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER; WIND EVENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; LAKES; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; THUNDERSTORMS; TORNADOES;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; FLOODING; HAIL; LIGHTNING; SEVERE WEATHER; SOCIAL IMPACT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SQUALL LINE; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO; WIND SHEAR;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953222260     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222428.1     Document Type: Article

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