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RISFatalities Associated with Nonconvective High-Wind Events in the United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A database was compiled for the period 1980?2005 to assess the threat to life in the conterminous United States from nonconvective high-wind events. This study reveals the number of fatalities from these wind storms, their ...
The Relationship between Tornadic and Nontornadic Convective Wind Fatalities and Warnings
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A database of tornado fatalities, nontornadic convective wind fatalities, severe thunderstorm warnings, and tornado warnings was compiled for the period 1986?2007 to assess the spatial and temporal distribution of warned ...
Characteristics of Winter-Precipitation-Related Transportation Fatalities in the United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: inter precipitation can be very disruptive to travel by aircraft and by motor vehicles. Vehicle fatalities due to winter precipitation are considered ?indirect? and are not counted in Storm Data, the publication commonly ...
Climatology and Trends in Hourly Precipitation for the Southeast United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractThis research introduces a climatology of hourly precipitation characteristics, investigates trends in precipitation hours (PH) and hourly accumulation, and uses four different time series to determine if precipitation ...
Effects of Rainfall on Vehicle Crashes in Six U.S. States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractRainfall is one of many types of weather hazard that can lead to motor vehicle crashes. To better understand the link between rainfall and crash rates, daily gridded precipitation data and automobile crash data are ...
Quantitative Assessment of Human Wind Speed Overestimation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: uman wind reports are a vital supplement to the relatively sparse network of automated weather stations in the United States, especially for localized convective winds. In this study, human wind estimates recorded in Storm ...
Maximum Wind Gusts Associated with Human-Reported Nonconvective Wind Events and a Comparison to Current Warning Issuance Criteria
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: onconvective high winds are a deceptively hazardous meteorological phenomenon. Though the National Weather Service (NWS) possesses an array of products designed to alert the public to nonconvective wind potential, documentation ...
Tornado Debris from the 23 May 2017 “Tybee Tornado”
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractWe examine the trajectories of four historical markers displaced during an enhanced Fujita scale 2 (EF2) tornado at the Fort Pulaski National Monument located on Cockspur Island, east of Savannah in southeast ...
Tornado Debris Characteristics And Trajectories During The 27 April 2011 Super Outbreak As Determined Using Social Media Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: licly available information gleaned from over 1700 found-and-returned objects on the ?Pictures and Documents found after the 27 April 2011 Tornadoes? Facebook page, the authors have created a database of 934 objects lofted ...