We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Investigating the Surrey tornado of 21 December 2019.
- Authors
Horton, Sarah L.; Clark, Matthew R.; Kirk, Peter J.
- Abstract
Recent operational experience suggests that supercell thunderstorms occur somewhere in the UK on a handful of days each year, although, as in the US, only some of these storms produce a tornado. These may be compared with suggested threshold minimum values of 18-20ms SP -1 sp (35-40kn) 0-6km AGL bulk wind difference for supercell thunderstorms (e.g. Markowski and Richardson, 2010), and 100-150m SP 2 sp s SP -2 sp storm-relative helicity for supercell tornadoes (e.g. Davies-Jones I et al i ., 1990; Taszarek I et al i ., 2017). The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO[1]) was founded in 1974 to investigate recent and historical reports of tornadoes and other phenomena associated with severe local storms, especially in the UK and Ireland (Elsom I et al i ., 2001). On 21 December 2019, a tornado hit several towns and villages in Surrey, UK.
- Subjects
TORNADOES; SINGLE family housing; THUNDERSTORMS; WEATHER radar networks; VERTICAL wind shear; RADAR meteorology
- Publication
Weather (00431656), 2021, Vol 76, Issue 12, p402
- ISSN
0043-1656
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wea.4028