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Supercells

Base lecture and Graphics created by The COMET Program

May 2002

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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Objective

•  “To be able to forecast and better recognize supercell storms in all their forms and have a better understanding of how they form and the severe weather elements that accompany these storms.”

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Overview

•  Introduction to Supercells •  Supercell Types and Features •  Supercell Environments and Evolution •  Supercell Processes •  Operational Supercell Issues

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Introduction

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Definition

•  Supercell storms are those storms with long-lived cores and rotating updrafts.

•  Supercells tend to have – one of several distinctive radar reflectivity

patterns –  they contain mesocyclones – and they generally have a different storm

motion than other nearby ordinary cells. •  Supercells are frequent producers of large

hail, strong winds, and tornadoes.

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Supercell Terminology (Mesocyclone)

•  A mesocyclone is a rotating vortex in conjunction with the updraft in a supercell storm.

•  Supercells develop mesocyclones by

tilting environmental and/or locally generated horizontal vorticity.

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Mesocyclone Example •  When viewed with

Doppler velocity imagery a typical mesocyclone appears as a cyclonic circulation ~2-10 km in diameter with values of the toward-and-away velocity couplet on the order of 25 to 75 m/s.

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Supercell Terminology (WER)

•  Because of the very strong updraft associated with supercell storms they are able to suspend a great many precipitation particles aloft. This overhang creates a weak echo region (WER) when observed on radar.

•  The existence of a WER is a good indicator of a potentially severe storm.

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Supercell Terminology (BWER)

•  The still stronger updraft causes a change in the configuration of the WER. A cavity sometimes develops in the mid-level overhang, creating what is known as a “bounded weak echo region” or BWER.

•  An updraft of this magnitude and longevity can produce very large hailstones (>2 inches) and the “steadier state” of the supercell can result in a long hail swath at the surface.

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BWER Example •  Here’s a

BWER in cross section

•  On a PPI

scan a BWER looks like a reflectivity donut

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Supercell Terminology (Hook Echo)

•  In the more intense supercells, the mid-level mesocyclone will eventually become strong enough to wrap precipitation around to the backside of the updraft, creating a characteristic pendant or hook echo.

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Hook Echo Example

•  The low-level mesocyclone is located within the notch of the hook echo

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Supercell Terminology (V-Notch)

•  In the stronger supercell cases, a slot of weaker radar reflectivity known as a V-notch may also appear on the downshear edge of the reflectivity field

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Other Supercell Features (FFD, RFD and Flanking Line)

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Supercell Visual Features

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Supercell Types and Features

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Supercell Classifications

There are four categories of supercell storms 1.  Classic Supercells 2.  Heavy Precipitation (HP) Supercells 3.  Low Precipitation (LP) Supercells and 4.  Shallow (a.k.a. Mini or Low-topped)

Supercells

All of these may be either Right-moving, Left-moving, or both (Splitting storms)

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Classic Supercells

• Wedge-shaped, generally isolated long-lived storms with rotating updrafts

• Often possess a WER or BWER and/or a hook echo

•  Frequent producers of severe weather including large hail, strong winds, tornadoes, and heavy rain

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HP Supercells •  More common east of the Plains states

•  Produce heavier rain than classic supercells and tend to be less isolated than other supercell types

•  Are capable of producing extreme hail falls, tornadoes, prolonged downburst winds and flash flooding

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HP Supercell Evolution

•  Have a “kidney bean” shape on radar –  Stages 3 4,

and 5

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HP Supercell Example

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LP Supercells

•  Most common along the dryline of west Texas and in the High Plains

•  Are generally smaller in diameter than classic supercells

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LP Supercells

•  Still capable of producing severe weather especially large hail and to a lesser extent tornadoes, although funnel clouds are common.

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LP Supercell Example

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Shallow Supercells

•  Are much smaller both horizontally and vertically than the other supercell types. These mini storms may be as small as only 20,000 ft (~6 km) tall with much smaller horizontal dimensions than classic varieties being as small as 6 km in diameter!

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Shallow Supercell Example

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Supercell Environments and

Evolution

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Synoptic Patterns

•  Favorable conditions conducive to supercells often occur with identifiable synoptic patterns

•  The favorable ingredients that support supercells in these environments are lots of instability and shear

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Environmental Factors Because they are so long-lived and intense it is highly desirable to be able to determine in advance if supercells are likely

–  Luckily the length and shape of a hodograph can be

very helpful in making this determination!

•  Strong and deep vertical wind shear values (> =25 m/s or ~50 kts over the lowest ~6 km AGL) tend to be associated with supercell formation

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Supercell Shear: Splitting Storms

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Evolution with a Straight Hodograph

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Supercell Shear: Right-movers

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Evolution with a Clockwise-Curved Hodograph

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Supercell Shear: Left-movers

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Evolution with a Counterclockwise-Curved Hodograph

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Impact of CAPE

•  Supercells, like other severe thunderstorms, usually occur with significant instability (CAPE values 1000-2000 J/kg or more)

•  Very severe storms with some supercell

characteristics can also form when shear values are negligible, but CAPE values are extremely large (> 5,000 J/kg).

•  In some highly dynamic environments supercells

can form with a minimal amount of CAPE and with tremendous low-level shear*.

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Cape and Shear / BRN

•  However, supercells most commonly form when the environmental vertical wind shear and instability are balanced

•  BRN values between 10-50 are generally associated with supercell storms

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Shallow Supercell Environments

• Mini supercells occur when CAPE is shallow and values are small. They most typically arise in two very different environments

1) with land-falling hurricanes and 2) in wintertime high shear low buoyancy

winter situations

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Shallow Supercell Environments

•  The thing that these two environments have in common is extreme low-level shear values (sometimes 60 kts over the lowest 2-3 km AGL!)

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Supercells with Bow Echoes Bow echo and supercell

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Important Supercell Processes

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Shear Creating Vorticity

•  When the vertical wind profile is sheared, horizontal vorticity is present in the environment. We can visualize this vorticity if we imagine the rotation that would be imparted to paddle wheels placed in the environment.

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Storm Tilt •  Vertical wind shear

and buoyancy gradients across the cloud act to tilt the convective tower in the downshear direction. For a given amount of shear, a stronger, updraft will not tilt as much as a weaker updraft simply because its vertical momentum is stronger.

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Storm Tilt (cont.) •  The precipitation in a storm

tilted by shear will largely fall downshear of the updraft, producing a distinctive reflectivity pattern with a tight gradient near the updraft.

•  Even though the precipitation is not falling back on the updraft as it does for non-sheared convection, this does not appreciably extend the life of the storm. The cold pool produced by the precipitation can still kill the storm.

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Vorticity

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Rotation Creates Low-Pressure

•  It is also important to understand that at this scale, wherever there is rotation, low pressure is induced regardless of the direction of the rotation.

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Tilting Process

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Stretching Process

•  Vertical stretching (like by a strong updraft) also increases rotation

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Splitting Process

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Splitting Storm Motion

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Additional Effect

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Comparing Pressure Patterns

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Right-Moving Supercell Processes

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Operational Issues with Supercell

Storms

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Supercell Locations in Squall Lines •  Supercells within lines

tend to become bow echoes, but cells at the ends of squall lines can remain supercellular for long periods of time

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Detecting Shallow Supercells

•  Shallow supercells present a particularly difficult forecasting challenge because they are accompanied by the same severe weather elements (including tornadoes) as their bigger counterparts, but are much more difficult to detect at any appreciable distance from the radar.

•  Also, they often catch forecasters off guard because they can occur even in low buoyancy environments where typical severe weather indices would not indicate the potential for severe weather.

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Tornadoes with Supercells •  Note that a mid-level mesocyclone, and

sometimes a hook echo, may be present for a considerable length of time before tornadogenesis, IF a tornado even occurs.

•  Recent research has shown that in the U.S. our best guess is that only 20-30% of supercell storms produce tornadoes. However, the same study found that such storms almost always produced severe weather in the form of hail or high winds.

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Tornado Evolution with Supercells

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Supercell Longevity

•  Recent research has shown that especially long-lived supercells ( > 4 hrs) tend to develop and evolve in environments with deeper stronger shear than supercells that live for 2 hours or less

•  The same study has shown that thankfully from a forecast perspective, the longest lived supercells tend to be more isolated than the shorter lived supercells

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Supercell Demise

•  All good things must come to and end though, and eventually something kills even supercell storms.

•  The two most common reasons for a supercell to decay include:

1.  its own cold pool eventually cutting off the supply of potentially unstable air or

2.  moving into an unfavorable environment •  Colliding with other convective storms

can also disrupt supercells.

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Summary •  Supercell storms are those storms with long-

lived cores and rotating updrafts •  Supercells tend to have

– distinctive radar reflectivity patterns – a different storm motion than other nearby

ordinary cells

•  Supercells are frequent producers of large hail, strong winds, and tornadoes.

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Summary (cont) There are four categories of supercell storms 1.  Classic Supercells 2.  Heavy Precipitation (HP) Supercells 3.  Low Precipitation (LP) Supercells and 4.  Shallow (a.k.a. Mini or Low-topped)

Supercells

- All of which may move to the right or left of the mean wind, or both (Splitting storms) depending on the hodograph shape

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Summary (cont) •  Supercell structure and evolution depend on

the characteristics of the environmental buoyancy and shear

•  Supercells are likely when the environmental wind shear is strong (> 50 kts over 0-6 km AGL)

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References –  COMET CD-Module, Anticipating Convective Storm Structure and Evolution

with online key points at http://www.comet.ucar.edu/modules/mod8/index.htm

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References (cont) –  Burgess, D.W., and L.R. Lemon, 1990: Severe thunderstorm detection

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References (cont) –  Rotunno, R., 1993: Supercell thunderstorm modeling and theory. Geo.

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