Abstract: Detailed composite profiles of temperature, moisture, and wind are constructed for tornado environments in tropical cyclones that affected the United States during the period 1948?86. Winds are composited in components ...

Abstract: On 16 August 1985 the remnants of Hurricane ?Danny? spawned a large tornado outbreak in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. At least six of 22 tornado- or funnel-producing storms observed on that day displayed long-track ...

Abstract: Numerical simulations of the convective storms that form in tornado-producing landfalling hurricanes show that shallow supercells are possible, even though buoyancy is limited because ambient lapse rates are close to moist ...

Abstract: Convective storm simulations are conducted using varying thermal and wind profile shapes, subject to the constraints of strict conservation of convective available potential energy (CAPE) and hodograph trace. Small and ...

Abstract: The sensitivities of convective storm structure and intensity to variations in the depths of the prestorm mixed layer, represented here by the environmental lifted condensation level (LCL), and moist layer, represented by ...

Abstract: The sensitivity of cloud-scale simulations of deep convection to variations in prescribed microphysics parameters is studied, using the single-moment scheme in the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) model. Realistic ...

Abstract: An unusual low-precipitation cumulonimbus that developed in northeastern Colorado is photographically documented in some detail. The storm produced at least 12 funnels, mostly at midlevels on the north side of the main ...

Abstract: A method is devised for diagnosing the condensation rate in simulations using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) model, where ice-liquid water potential temperature is a prognostic variable and an iterative ...

Abstract: On 30 June 1981, the wind fields around a variety of convective clouds, ranging from large thunderstorm complexes to isolated cumulus congestus, were observed in Oklahoma using an airborne Doppler lidar operated by the ...

Abstract: Prior parameter space studies of simulated deep convection are extended to embrace shifts in the environmental temperature. Within the context of the parameter space study design, shifts in this environmental temperature ...