Forecasting and Warning for Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes in the Northeastern United States

Available Training Modules

SECTION 1

 Tornado Warning Guidelines

SECTION 2

Pulse Severe Storms

SECTION 3

Forecasting Tornado Outbreaks vs. Derechos

SECTION 4

Northeast Severe Weather as a Function of Flow Regime 

 

References

 

Local COMET Severe Weather Research Home Page

 

National Weather Service Albany and  

the University at  Albany/SUNY

 

Comet Cooperative Project
 UCAR -09915806

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This training module is divided into 4 sections: Tornado Warning Guidelines, Pulse Severe Storms, Forecasting Tornado Outbreaks versus Derecho Events and Northeast Severe Weather as a Function of Flow Regime.  Section 1 is the most involved and will take the longest to complete, while sections 2 through 4 are relatively short.  To access any of the 4 Sections you can use the links on the left hand side of this page. Contributors to this work include:

Lance Bosart, Carl Cerniglia, Tom Galarneau, Sheryl Honikman, Hugh Johnson,  Kenneth LaPenta, George Maglaras, John Quinlan, Warren Snyder, Alicia (Cacciola) Wasula and Glenn Wiley.

 

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