June 16-18, 2014 Violent Tornado Outbreak Meteorologist Quincy Vagell.

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Importance of sounding information doing convective forecasts
Advertisements

Weather Discussion March 12, Wild Hawaiian Weather (3/9/2012)
(c) R. Thompson What is ESTOFEX? What are the goals of ESTOFEX? How are the forecasts created? Difficulties and future work The European Storm Forecast.
Ch. 8 Test Review Mr. Maine.
COMET ® Teletraining Forecasting Severe Thunderstorms Version 1.0 Dr. Douglas Wesley UCAR/COMET Ms. Wendy Schreiber-Abshire UCAR/COMET Tuesday, 9 June.
The High-Shear, Low-CAPE SHERB parameter and its evaluation Keith D. Sherburn Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State.
Identifying key features to predict significant severe weather outbreaks in the northeastern U.S. Neil A. Stuart NOAA/NWS Albany NY NROW XIII 3 November.
SPC Input – EMC GFS Satellite Data Denial Experiment April 2011 Tornado Outbreak Examination of Day 7 and Day 4 Guidance for SPC Severe Weather Outlooks.
A Forecasting Success A negatively tilting mid level trough approaching North Carolina, combined with strong instability and increasing deep layer shear,
MesoscaleM. D. Eastin Deep Convection: Forecast Parameters.
Intense Near-Surface Wind Shear in Severe Thunderstorm Environments: A Closer Look at Implications for Near-Surface Stability and Tornadogenesis Potential.
The Massachusetts Tornado Outbreak of June 1, 2011 Joe DelliCarpini Science and Operations Officer NOAA/NWS Taunton, MA.
Mike Evans / NWS Binghamton, NY. Outline Large-scale pattern / meso-analysis Radar data High resolution model output Summary.
An Overview of Environmental Conditions and Forecast Implications of the 3 May 1999 Tornado Outbreak Richard L. Thompson and Roger Edwards Presentation.
Dr. Scott M. Rochette Department of the Earth Sciences The College at Brockport.
Case Study of the May 7, 2002 Tornadic Supercell Outbreak Kathryn Saussy San Francisco State University Department of Geosciences.
Kansas Severe Thunderstorm Outbreak May 7, 2002 Christopher Medjber Meteorology 503 Department of Geosciences SFSU Christopher Medjber Meteorology 503.
Using Ensemble Probability Forecasts and High Resolution Models To Identify Severe Weather Threats Josh Korotky NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA and Richard H.
Severe Weather Applications David Bright NOAA/NWS/Storm Prediction Center AMS Short Course on Methods and Problems of Downscaling.
Severe Thunderstorm Forecasting An Overview Jeffry S. Evans Where America’s Weather and Climate Services Begin.
The supercell storm Anthony R. Lupo Atms 4310 / 7310 Lab 12.
Lectures on Thunderstorms and Tornadoes Chanh Q. Kieu Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science University of Maryland AOSC400, Fall 2008.
Operational Use of SPC’s Storm Scale Ensemble of Opportunity Bill Martin November 2014.
Convective basics and ESTOFEX
Hail Large hail is not a killer, but does considerable damage.
© Craig Setzer and Al Pietrycha Supercell (mesocyclone) tornadoes: Supercell tornado environments Developed by Jon Davies – Private Meteorologist – Wichita,
Jim Orlando, Kevin Smalley, Sean Stelten. What causes a storm, severe parameters, tools, etc.
Use of TAMDAR Data in a Convective Weather Event Saturday, May 21, 2005.
National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office – Taunton, MA (BOX)
Supercell Rotating thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts structured so it can maintain itself for several hours What makes a supercell different from.
Soundings and Adiabatic Diagrams for Severe Weather Prediction and Analysis Continued.
SPC Ensemble Applications: Current Status, Recent Developments, and Future Plans David Bright Storm Prediction Center Science Support Branch Norman, OK.
Synoptic Scale Factors of Significant Tornadoes in the Mid-South Thomas Salem, NWS Memphis, Heather Hyre, Miss. St. Univ., Janice Maldonado and Alina Nieves,
Using Ensemble Probability Forecasts And High Resolution Models To Identify Severe Weather Threats Josh Korotky NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA and Richard H.
Severe Weather: Tornadoes Harold E. Brooks NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory Norman, Oklahoma
CONVECTIVE STORM STRUCTURES AND AMBIENT CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE WEATHER OVER THE NORTHEAST UNITED STATES Kelly A. Lombardo and Brian A. Colle.
August 4, 2015: Two Rare High End Severe Weather Events Inside 12 Hours In Southern New England Hayden Frank NOAA/National Weather Service Taunton, MA.
40 th Annual Meeting, National Weather Association, Broadcast Meteorology Workshop Oct. 18, 2015 Understanding SPC’s Outlooks or Everything you wanted.
Meteo 3: Chapter 14 Spawning severe weather Synoptically-forced storms Read Chapter 14.
Summer Tornadoes – NWA 2015 Statistical Severe Convective Risk Assessment Model (SSCRAM) (Hart & Cohen, 2015) SPC Mesoanalysis Data Every hour from
Title card A Look at Environments Associated with Nighttime Supercell Tornadoes in the Central Plains Meteorologist Jon Davies Private © Dick McGowan &
Cool Season Tornadoes in the Southeast U.S. Steven Nelson Stephen Konarik WFO Peachtree City 11 November December January November.
Tornado Warning Skill as a Function of Environment National Weather Service Sub-Regional Workshop Binghamton, New York September 23, 2015 Yvette Richardson.
Statistical Severe Convective Risk Assessment Model (SSCRAM) SPC Mesoanalysis Data every hour from (Bothwell et al. 2002) + CG NLDN Lightning.
A Review of the March 28, 2007 Tornado Event Teresa Keck NWS North Platte, Nebraska Courtesy of Mike Hollingshead.
2. Basic Characteristics and Forecast The 500-hPa pattern for this event featured a deep low centered over Idaho. A composite analysis of past tornado.
 Second largest tornado outbreak ever.  30 F4/F5 recorded  148 tornados confirmed in 13 states  As many as 15 tornados going on at once  Damaged.
Quantifying the Significance of the April 2011 Severe Weather Outbreak Matthew S. Stalley, Chad M. Gravelle, Charles E. Graves Saint Louis University.
Conditions for Convection The Ingredients Method.
Kenneth R. Cook James Caruso Mickey McGuire National Weather Service, Wichita, KS.
Soundings and Adiabatic Diagrams for Severe Weather Prediction and Analysis Continued.
The April 9 th Tornado Outbreak Across the Four-State Region By Nick Fillo & Ismari Ramos WFO Shreveport, LA 4 th Regional Severe Storms/Radar and Hydrology.
Hurricanes Tornadoes  A huge storm that has strong winds that spiral inward and upward at speeds of mph  A violent rotating column of air extending.
Greg Carbin, Warning Coordination Meteorologist NOAA/National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center Workshop on Severe Convection and Climate – Int’l.
Jim Orlando, Kevin Smalley, Sean Stelten. What causes a storm, severe parameters, tools, etc.
August 4, 2015: Two Rare High End Severe Weather Events Inside 12 Hours In Southern New England Hayden Frank and Joe DelliCarpini NOAA/National Weather.
Michael K. Tippett1,2, Adam H. Sobel3,4 and Suzana J. Camargo4
Thermodynamic Diagrams and Severe Weather
Ingredients approach for severe weather
NOAA What are we looking at? inewscatcher.com 1 Tornadoes! 2.
Severe Weather and Storm Chasing
Tornadoes Tornadoes 101.
Tornadoes.
Forecast parameters, Tornadogensis, maintenance and decay
Do NOw When the bell rings, we’re going to be watching a clip from “Storm Chasers.” While you’re watching, think about what you already know about tornadoes.
Differences Between High Shear / Low CAPE Environments in the Northeast US Favoring Straight-Line Damaging Winds vs Tornadoes Michael E. Main, Ross A.
Forecast Verification time!
Forecast Verification time!
Supercell tornado environments
O.Kryvobok, V.Balabuh Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute
Presentation transcript:

June 16-18, 2014 Violent Tornado Outbreak Meteorologist Quincy Vagell

Tornado Outbreak Ingredients

June 1 st, 2011

Storm Chasing Terrain

June 16-18, 2014 Tornado Reports 82 Reports* 82 Reports* 53 Confirmed** 53 Confirmed** 5 EF-4 Tornadoes 5 EF-4 Tornadoes

Monday, June 16th

CAPE C onvective C onvective A vailable A vailable P otential P otential E nergy E nergy

Courtesy: University of California, Santa Barbara

Courtesy: SPC

Significant Tornado Parameter Instability Instability Updraft Rotation Updraft Rotation Wind Shear Wind Shear Lifted Condensation Level Lifted Condensation Level Convective Inhibition Convective Inhibition Courtesy: SPC

MUCAPE = 5,765 J/kg! Sig Tor 13+!

“Practically Perfect Forecast” Tornado Probabilities

Tuesday, June 17th

“Practically Perfect Forecast” Tornado Probabilities

Wednesday, June 18th

“Practically Perfect Forecast” Tornado Probabilities

*Reports via CIPS **From Wikipedia citing SPC storm reports