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COMET Case Study 019: Oklahoma City Tornado 1999 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC

Entry ID: COMET019_UCAR_JOSS_NOAA_CODIAC

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Summary

Abstract: Case 019 focuses on the severe convective event that affected much of
northern and central Oklahoma and south central Kansas. Tornados in
Oklahoma and Kansas resulted in 48 deaths and several hundred
injuries.

For more information, see:
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_019

and

http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c19_03may99/

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 40.0

S: 34.0

E: -95.0

W: -102.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Title: COMET Case Study 019: Oklahoma City Tornado

Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO

Dataset Publisher: UCAR/JOSS

Online Resource: http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_019

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
COMET_CASE_STUDIES

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1999-05-03

Stop Date: 1999-05-04

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > STORMS

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > TORNADOES

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Platform

RADIOSONDES

GROUND STATIONS

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

GOES-8 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8

Instrument

DOPPLER RADAR

NEXRAD > NEXt Generation RADar

Project

COMET > Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

Ancillary Keywords

MESO-ETA MODEL

NCEP MODEL

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

UCAR/JOSS

Data Center

Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalog System, Earth Observing Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Data Center URL: http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/

Data Center Personnel
Name: USER SERVICES/CODIAC Email: codiac at ucar.edu Contact Address: Codiac Data Archive University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000-FL4 City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80307-3000 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: online ftp

Distribution Size: varies

Distribution Format: varies

Fees: None

Publications/References

See:
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c19_03may99/ref.htm

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2001-02-15

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-03-03

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