{"id":498,"date":"2017-02-23T21:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/?p=498"},"modified":"2022-05-15T03:31:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T03:31:32","slug":"vol-12-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/2017\/vol-12-1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Vol 12-1 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Remotely Visible Width and Discontinuity of 50 Tornado Damage Paths through Forested Landscapes<\/h4>\n<div><em>Mark D. Zenoble, Chris J. Peterson<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<div>Tornado damage-path width is a necessary component for calculation of area impacted, which allows estimation of hazards.\u00a0 To date, rarely has variation in damage path width or path discontinuity been a focus.\u00a0 In this paper, using a damage threshold of &gt;25% canopy damage, we quantify width and discontinuity in 50 tornado paths in forested areas. \u00a0Tornado-path starting and end points were overlaid on Google Earth imagery obtained \u226424 months after the tornadoes, and damage-path width (or absence of damage) was measured for severities &gt;25% canopy loss, at fixed intervals.\u00a0 Width was measured only where both sides of the damage path were clearly defined by forest tree damage, thus many points were excluded from our analysis.\u00a0 Given our threshold level of forest canopy damage, no EF0 tornadoes showed remotely visible damage, and analyses were thus restricted to \u2265EF1 tornado paths. \u00a0Variation in remotely visible damage width was quantified as coefficient of variation, which ranged from 0.227 to 0.852, with a mean of 0.531 among the 50 paths.\u00a0 Discontinuity in remotely visible damage also varied among damage paths; up to 45% of the total number of measured points within a path lacked visible damage.\u00a0 Almost 40% of tornado damage paths exhibited such discontinuity along 20% or more of their path length.\u00a0 We suggest that the long, narrow EF-scale contours (particularly for \u2265EF1) often reported after storm surveys may mask extensive width variation in severe damage and substantial portions of tornado paths with no severe damage.<\/div>\n<p>Full Text:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vol12-1.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Citation:<br \/>\nZenoble, M. D., and C. J. Peterson, 2017:\u00a0Remotely visible width and discontinuity of 50 tornado damage paths through forested landscapes.\u00a0<i>Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor.<\/i>,\u00a0<b>12\u00a0<\/b>(1), 1-21.<\/p>\n<p>Keywords:<br \/>\ndamage assessment, tornadoes, forestry, land cover, forensic meteorology, satellite observations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h5>Remotely Visible Width and Discontinuity of 50 Tornado Damage Paths through Forested Landscapes<\/h5>\n<p><i>Mark D Zenoble, Chris J Peterson<\/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":[42,15,67,44,47,13],"class_list":{"0":"post-498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-article","7":"tag-damage-assessment","8":"tag-forensic-meteorology","9":"tag-forestry","10":"tag-land-cover","11":"tag-satellite-observations","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\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ejssm.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}