Investigation of Upper-Air Conditions Occurring with Warm Season Severe Wind Events in Utah
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- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Weather and Forecasting
- Vol. 12 (2) , 282-293
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(1997)012<0282:iouaco>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Analyses of proximity soundings and upper-air fields for 37–51 Utah severe wind cases (WIND), reported in the months of May–September and occurring within 3 h after upper-air observation time, are presented. In addition, a comparison of sample mean values between the WIND cases and a climatological sample (CLIM) is made using a standard t test to determine which variables are significantly different between the two samples. This study seeks to determine if the synoptic-scale-derived fields play a significant role in producing severe wind for a region in which subsynoptic effects, attributed to uneven terrain, are important. The WIND sample environment had the following important differences when compared to CLIM:Keywords
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