{"id":277,"date":"2012-08-31T21:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T21:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/?p=277"},"modified":"2022-04-28T06:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:15:04","slug":"vol-7-5-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/2012\/vol-7-5-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol 7-5 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Environments of Significant Tornadoes Occurring within the Warm Sector versus Those Occurring along Surface Baroclinic Boundaries<\/h4>\n<p><em>Jonathan Garner<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>Archived, hourly-analysis proximity soundings from the operational Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) model are used to examine the vertical wind profiles and thermodynamic parameter space associated with significant tornadoes (rated F2+\/EF2+) occurring in the warm sector (33 events) of synoptic cyclones, as well as those occurring along surface baroclinic boundaries (52 events), during the period 1999-2010 over the central and eastern United States.\u00a0 These tornadoes were associated with either the warm sector or a surface baroclinic boundary through the use of subjective surface analyses, supplemented by visible satellite and WSR-88D imagery.\u00a0 A key finding is that measures of ground-relative wind speed, storm-relative helicity, and bulk wind difference are much stronger for warm-sector significant tornado events.\u00a0 In contrast, thermodynamic parameters did not distinguish between the two regimes.\u00a0 Among all of the parameters examined, the observed and predicted speed of the parent supercell showed the most substantial differences between warm-sector and boundary significant tornado environments.<\/p>\n<p>Full Text: <a href=\"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vol7-5.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Citation:<br \/>\nGarner, J. M., 2012:\u00a0Environments of significant tornadoes occurring within the warm sector versus those occurring along surface baroclinic boundaries.\u00a0<i>Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor.<\/i>,\u00a0<b>7<\/b>\u00a0(5), 1-28.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords:<br \/>\nstorm environments, tornadoes, supercells, fronts, mesoscale processes, operational forecasting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h5>Environments of Significant Tornadoes Occurring within the Warm Sector versus Those Occurring along Surface Baroclinic Boundaries<\/h5>\n<p><i>Jonathan Garner<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,18,21,19,14,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-article","7":"tag-fronts","8":"tag-mesoscale-processes","9":"tag-operational-forecasting","10":"tag-storm-environments","11":"tag-supercells","12":"tag-tornadoes","13":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Elke","author_link":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/author\/elke\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}