What is a "QLCS-type Spinup?"

[joel ewing]

(Mods, this might have inadvertantly been sent to you a moment ago by accident. Please...obviously ignore one of the two if this has happened-thanks-Joel.)

Hi all! While reading thru a S.T. forum a year or two ago...or perhaps it was a SPC discussion, it mentioned a "QLCS-type Spinup". Since then, I have always wondered what indeed that is. My thanks in advance to those of you who have taken the time to help me with this. Joel

 

[Brian Stertz]

Quasi Linear Convective System QLCS.....spin up would be something along the lines of a pulse type updraft that cranks up and begins to rotate enought to drop a brief tornado. Get alot of these at night when the LLJ ramps up and LL shear enhances from my past experiences of radar goobering.

 

[mikegeukes]

AWOC Severe Track IC3-III-G Quasi-Linear Convective System tornadoes
http://wdtb.noaa.gov/courses/awoc/d...mental_Lessons/ICSvr3-III-G_QLCStornadoes.pdf

Some other sites on QLCS
http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~kmanross/QLCS/2003radarConf-MTS.pdf
http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/115488.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=qlcslatest
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/science/QLCS/mcsltst.php
http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0493/136/1/pdf/i1520-0493-136-11-4220.pdf
http://cyclone.atmos.uiuc.edu/~bjewett/Research/MCS/Pasken-MCS.pdf
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/users/brooks/public_html/papers/trappetal.pdf

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[Chad Cowan]

Just out of curiosity, how (if at all) does a QLCS tornado differ from a LEWP tornado?