Jon Davies
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FWIW, two new peer-reviewed papers about nighttime tornado environments written by Andy Fischer (AWC in Kansas City) and me have just been published online in National Weather Association Electronic Journal of Operation Meteorology (NWA EJOM):
Environmental Characteristics Associated with Nighttime Tornadoes
By: Jonathan M. Davies and Anthony Fischer
Significant Nighttime Tornadoes in the Plains Associated with Relatively Stable Low-Level Conditions
By: Anthony Fischer and Jonathan M. Davies
There's some interesting things we found with nighttime tornado environments, including much larger storm-relative helicity (SRH), and significant differences in CAPE and CIN between the Plains and the southeastern United States. In the second paper, we looked specifically at a couple of significant nighttime tornado settings in Kansas in 2008 (including the Jewell-Belleville 29 May 08 event) that were associated with unusually large CIN and a deep low-level stable layer.
Hope some find these useful...
Jon Davies
Environmental Characteristics Associated with Nighttime Tornadoes
By: Jonathan M. Davies and Anthony Fischer
Significant Nighttime Tornadoes in the Plains Associated with Relatively Stable Low-Level Conditions
By: Anthony Fischer and Jonathan M. Davies
There's some interesting things we found with nighttime tornado environments, including much larger storm-relative helicity (SRH), and significant differences in CAPE and CIN between the Plains and the southeastern United States. In the second paper, we looked specifically at a couple of significant nighttime tornado settings in Kansas in 2008 (including the Jewell-Belleville 29 May 08 event) that were associated with unusually large CIN and a deep low-level stable layer.
Hope some find these useful...
Jon Davies
