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Ranking of Tornado Outbreaks across the United States and Their Climatological Characteristics
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Fuhrmann, Christopher M. Konrad, Charles Edward Kovach, Margaret M. McLeod, Jordan T. Schmitz, W. Dixon, P. Grady |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | AbstractThe calendar year 2011 was an extraordinary year for tornadoes across the United States, as it marked the second highest annual number of tornadoes since 1950 and was the deadliest tornado year since 1936. Most of the fatalities in 2011 occurred in a series of outbreaks, highlighted by a particularly strong outbreak across the southeastern United States in late April and a series of outbreaks over the Great Plains and Midwest regions in late May, which included a tornado rated as a category 5 event on the enhanced Fujita scale (EF5) that devastated the town of Joplin, Missouri. While most tornado-related fatalities often occur in outbreaks, very few studies have examined the climatological characteristics of outbreaks, particularly those of varying strength. In this study a straightforward metric to assess the strength, or physical magnitude, of tornado outbreaks east of the Rocky Mountains from 1973 to 2010 is developed. This measure of outbreak strength, which integrates the intensity of tornado... |
| Starting Page | 684 |
| Ending Page | 701 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1175/WAF-D-13-00128.1 |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.sercc.com/Fuhrmann_etal_Outbreak_Climatology_WAF.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-13-00128.1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
