Abstract: A hydroclimatology, or description of long-term means and interannual variation, that focuses on soil moisture deficits was constructed for the period of 1895?1998 for a six-state region composing the Ohio Valley. The term ...

Abstract: This study addresses a particularly damaging derecho that occurred on 8 and 9 July 1993. This progressive, warm season derecho organized in northeastern Colorado and swept through Nebraska and Kansas before dissipating in ...

Abstract: On 21 May 1995, a strong tornado developed with an isolated supercell in southwestern Nebraska. Large-scale conditions were not supportive of a tornadic thunderstorm outbreak; however, evidence suggests significant mesoscale ...

Abstract: In 1888, Iowa weather researcher Gustavus Hinrichs gave widespread convectively induced windstorms the name ?derecho?. Refinements to this definition have evolved after numerous investigations of these systems; however, ...

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Abstract: During 12 and 18 August 1999, severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds and hail that caused an estimated $50 million in damage to agriculture in west-central Illinois. Landsat-7 imagery was obtained to determine the ...

Abstract: Eighteen heavy snowstorms in the Southeast are examined to determine the synoptic-scale features common to these storms. Storm-relative composites in the temporal domain are created by assigning a ?zero hour? to each storm ...