Observations of low level thermodynamic and wind shear profiles on significant tornado days

23rd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms, SLS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Miller, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a NOAA/National Weather Service   (United States)

^b National Weather Service   (United States)

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