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COMET Case Study 027: Southern Louisiana Tornados 1999 Data at UCAR/JOSS/NOAA/CODIAC

Entry ID: COMET027_UCAR_JOSS_NOAA_CODIAC

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Summary

Abstract: On 1-2 January 1999, southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana
experienced a major tornado outbreak which featured 1 F3, 5 F2's, and
8 F0-F1's. While southern Louisiana's annual average for tornados is
13 (1950-1995), it hosted 12 tornados on 1-2 January. All of the
tornados were indicated by WSR-88D radars in Lake Charles and Fort
Polk, Louisiana. The average lead time was an impressive 24
minutes. There was one fatality in Texas, but, given the severity of
the outbreak and the fact that it happened overnight, it is fortunate
that there were not more people injured or killed.

For more information, see:
http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_027

Related URL

Link: GET DATA

Description: COMET Case 027 list of data sets and access to COMET case 027 data

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE

Description: COMET Case 027 documentation, information and data

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 36.4

S: 27.5

E: -84.5

W: -98.6

Data Set Citation

Dataset Title: COMET Case Study 027: Southern Louisiana Tornados

Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO

Dataset Publisher: UCAR/EOL

Online Resource: http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/projs?COMET_CASE_027

Parent DIF

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

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1999-01-01

Stop Date: 1999-01-02

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/c27_01jan99/ref.htm

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2001-02-20

Last DIF Revision Date: 2006-11-29

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