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COMET Case Study 038:Birmingham Tornado at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC
Entry ID: COMET038_UCAR_JOSS_NOAA_CODIAC

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Summary
Abstract: The day of 8 April 1998 was a very stormy one for Mississippi, Alabam
and Georgia. Showers and thunderstorms were widespread over SE Alabama
and S Georgia early in the day, while widespread severe storms plagued
north Mississippi, Georgia and hardest hit Alabama that afternoon and
evening. NCDC has 224 reports of severe ... View entire text
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: 38.5   S: 28.0   E: -75.0   W: -96.0

Data Set Citation
Dataset Title: COMET Case Study 038:Birmingham Tornado
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO
Dataset Publisher: UCAR/JOSS
Online Resource: http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_038
Parent DIF
This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
COMET_CASE_STUDIES
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1998-04-07
Stop Date: 1998-04-09
Location Keywords
Science Keywords
ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > STORMS > THUNDERSTORMS Parameter Definition
ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA > TORNADOES Parameter Definition
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ISO Topic Category
Platform
RADIOSONDES Ancillary Description
GROUND STATIONS Ancillary Description
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS Ancillary Description
GOES-8 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 8 Ancillary Description
Instrument
NEXRAD > NEXt Generation RADar Ancillary Description
RADAR > Radio Detection and Ranging Ancillary Description
GOES I-M SOUNDER Ancillary Description
GOES I-M IMAGER Ancillary Description
Project
Ancillary Keywords
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 Supplemental Info
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
For a complete list of references, see:
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/resources/cases/c38_08apr98/ref.htm
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2002-03-12
Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-03-03

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