Transcript of Class #9: Monday, July 19 Thunderstorms and tornadoes Chapter 14 1Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010.
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- Class #9: Monday, July 19 Thunderstorms and tornadoes Chapter
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- Fig. 14-CO, p. 370 2Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Fig. 14-1, p. 372 3Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Thunderstorms and Tornadoes Chapter 14 4Class #9, Monday, July
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- Thunderstorms A storm containing lightening and thunder;
convective storms Severe thunderstorms: one of large hail, wind
gusts greater than or equal to 50kts, or tornado Ordinary Cell
Thunderstorms Air-mass thunderstorms: limited wind sheer Stages:
cumulus, mature, dissipating Entrainment, downdraft, gust front
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- Fig. 14-2, p. 373 7Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Fig. 14-2, p. 373 8Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Fig. 14-2, p. 373 9Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Fig. 14-4, p. 375 11Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Thunderstorms Multi-cell Thunderstorms Thunderstorms that
contain a number of convection cells, each in a different stage of
development, moderate to strong wind shear; tilt, over shooting top
Gust Front: leading edge of the cold air out-flowing air; shelf
cloud, roll cloud, outflow boundary Micro-bursts: localized
downdraft that hits the ground and spreads horizontally in a radial
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- Fig. 14-6, p. 376 14Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Thunderstorms Multi-cell Thunderstorms Squall-line
thunderstorms; line of multi-cell thunderstorms, pre-frontal
squall-line, derecho Meso-scale Convective Complex: a number of
individual multi-cell thunderstorms grow in size and organize into
a large circular convective weather system; summer, 10,000km 2
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- Fig. 14-10, p. 378 19Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Fig. 14-11, p. 378 20Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Stepped Art Fig. 14-11, p. 378 21Class #9, Monday, July 19,
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- Thunderstorms Supercell thunderstorms Large, long-lasting
thunderstorm with a single rotating updraft Strong vertical wind
shear Outflow never undercuts updraft Classic, high precipitation
and low precipitation supercells Cap and convective instability
Rain free base, low-level jet Surface, 850mb, 700mb, 500mb, 300mb
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- Fig. 14-23, p. 384 34Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Thunderstorms Thunderstorms and the Dryline Sharp, horizontal
change in moisture Thunderstorms form just east of dryline cP, mT,
cT Floods and Flash Floods Flash floods rise rapidly with little or
no advance warning; many times caused by stalled or slow
thunderstorm Large floods can be created by training of storm
systems, Great Flood of 1993 35Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Fig. 1, p. 386 36Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Thunderstorms Topic: Big Thompson Canyon July 31, 1976, 12
inches of rain in 4 hours created a flood associated with
$35.5million in damage and 135 deaths Distribution of Thunderstorms
Most frequent Florida, Gulf Coast, Central Plains Fewest Pacific
coast and Interior valleys Most frequent hail Central Plains
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- Fig. 14-25, p. 387 39Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Thunderstorms Lightening and Thunder Lightening: discharge of
electricity in mature storms (within cloud, cloud to cloud, cloud
to ground) Thunder: explosive expansion of air due to heat from
lightening Electrification of Clouds: graupel and hailstones fall
through supercooled water, ice crystals become negatively charged
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- Fig. 2, p. 390 44Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Thunderstorms Observations: Elves Blue jets, red sprite, ELVES
The Lightening Stroke Positive charge on ground, cloud to ground
lightening Stepped leader, ground stroke, forked lightening, ribbon
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- Thunderstorms Observation: Apple tree DO NOT seek shelter
during a thunderstorm under an isolated tree. Lightening Detection
and Suppression Lightening direction finder detects radiowaves
produced by lightening, spherics National Lightening Detection
Network Suppression: seed clouds with aluminum 49Class #9, Monday,
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- Fig. 14-32, p. 392 51Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Fig. 3, p. 395 56Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Fig. 14-37, p. 396 57Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Tornadoes Rapidly rotating column of air that blows around a
small area of intense low pressure with a circulation that reaches
the ground. Tornado life cycle Organizing, mature, shrinking, decay
stage Tornado outbreaks Families, super outbreak 59Class #9,
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- Tornadoes Tornado Occurrence US experiences most tornadoes
Tornado Alley (warm, humid surface; cold dry air aloft) Highest
spring, lowest winter Tornado winds Measurement based upon damage
after storm or Doppler radar For southwest approaching storms,
winds strongest in the northeast of the storm, 220 kts maximum
Multi-vortex tornados 60Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Tornadoes Seeking shelter Basement or small, interior room on
ground floor Indoor vs. outdoor pressure The Fujita Scale Based
upon the damage created by a storm F0 weakest, F5 strongest
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- Tornadic Formation Basic requirements are an intense
thunderstorm, conditional instability, and strong vertical wind
shear Supercell Tornadoes Wind sheer causes spinning vortex tube
that is pulled into thunderstorm by the updraft Mesocyclone, BWER,
rear flank downdraft, vertical stretching, funnel cloud, rotating
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- Table 14-1, p. 399 67Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Table 14-2, p. 400 68Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Stepped Art Fig. 14-46, p. 402 75Class #9, Monday, July 19,
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- Tornadic Formation Nonsupercell Tornadoes Gustnadoes Land spout
Cold-air funnels 76Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Severe Weather and Doppler Radar Doppler radar measures the
speed of precipitation toward and away radar unit Two Doppler
radars can provide a 3D view TVS, Doppler lidar NEXRAD 79Class #9,
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- Fig. 14-49, p. 405 80Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010
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- Waterspouts Rotating column of air that is connected to a
cumuliform cloud over a large body of water Tornadic waterspout
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- Fig. 14-52, p. 409 84Class #9, Monday, July 19, 2010