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- Title
Buyer Beware: Some Words of Caution on the Use of Severe Wind Reports in Postevent Assessment and Research.
- Authors
Trapp, Robert J.; Wheatley, Dustan M.; Atkins, Nolan T.; Przybylinski, Ronald W.; Wolf, Ray
- Abstract
Postevent damage surveys conducted during the Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex Experiment demonstrate that the severe thunderstorm wind reports in Storm Data served as a poor characterization of the actual scope and magnitude of the surveyed damage. Contrasting examples are presented in which a few reports grossly underrepresented a significant event (in terms of property damage and actual areal coverage of damage), while a large number of reports overrepresented a relatively less significant event. Explanations and further discussion of this problem are provided, as are some of the implications, which may include a skewed understanding of how and when systems of thunderstorms cause damage. A number of recommendations pertaining to severe wind reporting are offered.
- Subjects
WINDS; THUNDERSTORMS; STORMS; METEOROLOGY; CONVECTION (Meteorology)
- Publication
Weather & Forecasting, 2006, Vol 21, Issue 3, p408
- ISSN
0882-8156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/WAF925.1