Title: A PRELIMINARY TORNADO FORECASTING SYSTEM FOR KANSAS AND NEBRASKA
Abstract:A study is made of the possibility of associating certain characteristics of the weather situation at 1500 GMT with the occurrence of tornadoes within a specified area during the succeeding 12 hours. ...A study is made of the possibility of associating certain characteristics of the weather situation at 1500 GMT with the occurrence of tornadoes within a specified area during the succeeding 12 hours. The parameters selected were all determined objectively. The system devised was able to separate out a group which included about 30 percent of all reported tornadoes and for which tornadoes were reported in about 60 percent of the cases. The main significance of the study is that apparently the tornado forecasting problem can be successfully treated with the objective forecasting techniques developed in the last decade.Read More