An Observational Study of the Effects of Dry Air Produced in Dissipating Convective Storms on the Predictability of Severe WeatherSource: Weather and Forecasting:;2014:;volume( 030 ):;issue: 001::page 79DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00065.1Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his paper documents features that led to major forecast errors on the 12?24-h time scale in the nature and location of severe weather in the southern plains on 30 May 2012. Evidence is presented that the forecast errors were the result of 1) dry air that originated in a region of dissipating, elevated convective storms, and which was advected in a narrow tongue into western Oklahoma, inhibiting convective initiation; 2) the development of a cyclone along the dryline in western Texas, to the east of which several supercells formed; 3) the upscale development of the supercells into a mesoscale convective system (MCS) at nightfall; and 4) the dissipation of an MCS that had formed along a cold front in southwestern Kansas and was propagating into northwestern Oklahoma, as it encountered dry, subsiding air underneath the stratiform precipitation region of the rear portion of the MCS farther south. There was a meridionally oriented swath of high winds in clear air, in between the two MCSs. This swath of high winds may have been associated with a bore triggered at night by the MCSs approaching from the north, as the MCS collapsed, producing a gust front that propagated through stable, low-level air. This case study illustrates how the predictability of severe weather in a region can be extremely sensitive to the details of where nearby convective storms form and how they evolve. It also highlights the likely importance of the accurate representation of cloud microphysics and dynamics in numerical forecast models on predictability.
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contributor author | Bluestein, Howard B. | |
contributor author | Snyder, Jeffrey C. | |
date accessioned | 2017-06-09T17:36:42Z | |
date available | 2017-06-09T17:36:42Z | |
date copyright | 2015/02/01 | |
date issued | 2014 | |
identifier issn | 0882-8156 | |
identifier other | ams-88049.pdf | |
identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4231786 | |
description abstract | his paper documents features that led to major forecast errors on the 12?24-h time scale in the nature and location of severe weather in the southern plains on 30 May 2012. Evidence is presented that the forecast errors were the result of 1) dry air that originated in a region of dissipating, elevated convective storms, and which was advected in a narrow tongue into western Oklahoma, inhibiting convective initiation; 2) the development of a cyclone along the dryline in western Texas, to the east of which several supercells formed; 3) the upscale development of the supercells into a mesoscale convective system (MCS) at nightfall; and 4) the dissipation of an MCS that had formed along a cold front in southwestern Kansas and was propagating into northwestern Oklahoma, as it encountered dry, subsiding air underneath the stratiform precipitation region of the rear portion of the MCS farther south. There was a meridionally oriented swath of high winds in clear air, in between the two MCSs. This swath of high winds may have been associated with a bore triggered at night by the MCSs approaching from the north, as the MCS collapsed, producing a gust front that propagated through stable, low-level air. This case study illustrates how the predictability of severe weather in a region can be extremely sensitive to the details of where nearby convective storms form and how they evolve. It also highlights the likely importance of the accurate representation of cloud microphysics and dynamics in numerical forecast models on predictability. | |
publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
title | An Observational Study of the Effects of Dry Air Produced in Dissipating Convective Storms on the Predictability of Severe Weather | |
type | Journal Paper | |
journal volume | 30 | |
journal issue | 1 | |
journal title | Weather and Forecasting | |
identifier doi | 10.1175/WAF-D-14-00065.1 | |
journal fristpage | 79 | |
journal lastpage | 114 | |
tree | Weather and Forecasting:;2014:;volume( 030 ):;issue: 001 | |
contenttype | Fulltext |