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- Title
The Almena, Kansas, Tornadic Storm of 3 June 1999: A Long-Lived Supercell with Very Little Cloud-to-Ground Lightning.
- Authors
McCaul, Eugene W.; Buechler, Dennis E.; Hodanish, Stephen; Goodman, Steven J.
- Abstract
The visual, radar, and lightning characteristics of a severe thunderstorm that spawned a large F3 tornado near Almena, Kansas, on 3 June 1999 are documented. The storm is interesting in that it made a transition from a low-precipitation to classic supercell then back to low-precipitation supercell again prior to dissipation after sunset. The storm remarkably produced only 17 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes during its 4.5-h lifetime, despite vertically integrated liquid (VIL) values reaching 95 kg m[sup -2] , reflectivities of 50 dBZ or greater at altitudes of 14 km, and baseball-size hail at the surface. In contrast, total lightning rates inferred from a portable lightning detector during the large tornado were very high, approximately 100 per minute, as expected for a storm of this size and intensity.
- Subjects
KANSAS; UNITED States; LIGHTNING; THUNDERSTORMS; TORNADOES
- Publication
Monthly Weather Review, 2002, Vol 130, Issue 2, p407
- ISSN
0027-0644
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<0407:TAKTSO>2.0.CO;2