Abstract: A study was performed to determine meteorological aspects of environments in which thunderstorms produced both strong or violent tornadoes and flash floods within a limited temporal and spatial domain. It was found that ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationships between short-term convective mode evolution, the orientations of vertical shear and mean wind vectors with respect to the initiating synoptic boundary, the motion of the boundary, ...

Abstract: Forecasters at the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) were faced with many challenges during the 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak. Operational numerical forecast models valid during the outbreak gave inaccurate, inconsistent, and/or ...