An analysis of the 7 July 2004 Rockwell Pass. CA tornado: Highest elevation tornado documented in the US

23rd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms, SLS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Monteverdi, John P ^a   Edwards, Roger ^b   Stumpf, Gregory A ^c   Cudgel, Daniel ^d  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c Decision Assistance Branch   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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