Lecture #21
Tornadoes and Hodographs
Friday, 9 March 2001

Text Reading for Lecture #21
Supplemental Reading Materials Given Below

 

The OU Doppler on Wheels Radar

Climatology of Tornadoes (page 404 in
text)

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Other severe storm climatology information
can be found HERE.

WIND HODOGRAPHS

See USAF Handout
See Handout by Weisman and Klemp
Click HERE for powerpoint file

A real hodograph:

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ADIABATIC CHARTS/THERMODYNAMIC
DIAGRAMS (text reading pages 174-175; review
pages 161-171)

The Thermodynamic Diagram 1

The Thermodynamic Diagram 2

The Thermodynamic Diagram 3

Unidata Interactive Sounding

To come: Use of soundings and hodographs
to determine storm type, motion, and
other characteristics.