Web Links for ATMO 170A1 - Section 1

Chapter 10

 

 

Time lapse of thunderstorm development along sea breeze

 

Mike Olbinski's storm gallery

 

Gust fronts and haboobs:

 

Dust storm safety tips

 

Haboobs

 

Phoenix dust storm 2011

 

Same dust storm, different view

 

Phoenix dust storm 2014 time lapse

 

Driving in a dust storm

 

Microbursts:

 

Delta Airlines Flight 191 (August 2, 1985 microburst event and crash)

 

In a microburst

 

In another microburst

 

View of microburst

 

Lightning:

 

Negative cloud-to-ground lightning flash

 

Upward lightning flash

 

Lightning from volcano ash plume

 

Hair standing on end?

 

St. Elmo's Fire

 

Video of stepped leader [1] [2]

 

Upward connecting discharges

 

Multiple stroke flashes

 

Rocket-triggered lightning

 

Fulgurites [1] [2] (source: Univ. of Florida)

 

Weather radar:

 

1. Doppler radar overview (NWS Billings)

 

2. Doppler radar velocity (NWS Billings)

 

3. Moore, OK (May 20 2013), tornado radar loop

 

RKW:

 

Gravity current

 

Supercells and tornadoes:

 

4. Tornado environments and overview (NOVA Tornado! 1985; start at ~7:00 mark)

 

5. Severe weather climatology (SPC)

 

6. Joplin, MO, tornado of May 22 2011

 

7. March 18 1925 Tri-State tornado reanalysis [1] [2]

 

8. How supercells are able to rotate (NOVA Tornado! 1985; start at 2:53 mark and play through 5:12 mark)

 

9. Flow in simulated supercell thunderstorm (The Enemy Wind; play through 2:20 mark)

 

10. May 15 1991 Laverne, OK, tornado (almost full life cycle)

 

11. EF-Scale information

 

12. Tornado damage on surveillance

 

13. Pampa, Texas, tornado (Tornado Video Classics III; start at 22:47 mark, end at 26:52 mark)

 

14. Multiple vortices (Tornado Video Classics I; start at 16:05 mark, end at 19:42 mark)

 

15. Inside Mega Tornado (National Geographic)

 

16. Leigh Orf's SLS 2014 presentation