Mesoscale dynamics in the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak

From: Monthly Weather Review | Date: August 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Radar and satellite imagery suggest that strong mesoscale forcing occurred in the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak on 27 March 1994. Parallel lines of severe thunderstorms within each of three mesoscale convective systems developed just ahead of a cold front in Mississippi and Alabama on this date. Analyses of routine meteorological observations, barograph data, and forecasts from the Eta and NGM models and a mesoscale research model (MASS) are used to examine the relative roles of large-scale dynamics and mesoscale processes in triggering and organizing the mesoscale convection.

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