A 5-yr climatology of tornado false alarms

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 534-544

  Brotzge, Jerald A ^a   Erickson, S ^b   Brooks, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Short range prediction; Tornadoes

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; COUNTY WARNING AREAS; FALSE ALARMS; GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; POPULATION DENSITIES; SHORT-RANGE PREDICTION; TORNADO WARNINGS; WEATHER FORECAST OFFICES;

CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADAR; STORMS; TORNADOES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

CLIMATOLOGY; STORM; TORNADO; TREND ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052423646     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05004.1     Document Type: Article

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