The bowdle, south dakota, cyclic tornadic supercell of 22 may 2010: Surface analysis of rear-flank downdraft evolution and multiple internal surges

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3419-3441

  Lee, Bruce D ^a   Finley, Catherine A ^a   Karstens, Christopher D ^b  

^a Product Research and Development at NextEra Analytics   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Supercells; Tornadoes; Tornadogenesis

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE ZONES; CYCLONIC VORTICITY; NEAR-SURFACE; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; REAR-FLANK; SOUTH DAKOTAS; SUPER CELL; TORNADO DEVELOPMENT; TORNADOGENESIS; VERTICAL VORTEX;

BUOYANCY; KINEMATICS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW;

TORNADOES;

CYCLONE; KINEMATICS; SUPERCELL; THERMODYNAMICS; TORNADO; VORTICITY; WEATHER STATION;

SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871885436     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00351.1     Document Type: Article

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