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Societal impacts of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes: lessons learned and implications for Europe
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In the United States, a substantial infrastructure has evolved in response to the numerous natural hazards (not limited to severe thunderstorms and tornadoes) in an effort to reduce the societal impacts of these hazards as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Atmospheric Research.The article was published on 2003-07-01. It has received 68 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Severe weather & Thunderstorm.read more
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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Tornado Fatalities in the United States: 1880–2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a dataset of killer tornadoes is compiled and analyzed spatially in order to assess region-specific vulnerabilities in the United States from 1880 to 2005, showing that most tornado fatalities occur in the lower-Arkansas, Tennessee, and lower-Mississippi River valleys of the southeastern United States.
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Vulnerability due to Nocturnal Tornadoes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the human vulnerability caused by tornadoes that occurred between sunset and sunrise from 1880 to 2007 and found that the nocturnal tornado death rate has not shared the same pace of decline as those events transpiring during the daytime hours.
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Hail observations and hailstorm characteristics in Europe: A review
Heinz Jürgen Punge,Michael Kunz +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive overview and review of the present state of knowledge on hail hazard and hail frequency over recent decades up to centuries across Europe can be found in this paper, where the authors attempted to summarize and synthesize the various prevailing studies with the objective to identify regions that are most prone to hail hazard.
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Climate and Hazardous Convective Weather
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the large-scale climate system and hazardous convective weather (HCW; tornadoes, hail, and damaging wind), particularly over the USA where there are large societal impacts and a long observational record.
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What Is a Good Forecast? An Essay on the Nature of Goodness in Weather Forecasting
TL;DR: Three distinct types of goodness are identified in this paper: the correspondence between forecasters’ judgments and their forecasts, the correspondencebetween the forecasts and the matching observations, and the incremental economic and/or other benefits realized by decision makers through the use of the forecasts (type 3 goodness, or value).
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Climatological Estimates of Local Daily Tornado Probability for the United States
TL;DR: In this paper, Gaussian smoothers in space and time have been applied to the observed record of tornado days from 1980 to 1999 to produce daily maps and annual cycles at any point on an 80 km × 80 km grid.
Proposed characterization of tornadoes and hurricanes by area and intensity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the results of the 1968 through 1970 Tornado Watch Experiment conducted jointly by NASA and NOAA suggested the necessity of characterizing individual tornadoes in order to improve the identity of tornado-producing nephsystems.
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On Subjective Probability Forecasting
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the subjective process of probability forecasting and found that it contains a sorling aspect, where the forecaster distributes all instances into an ordered set of categories of likelihood of occurrence, and a laboling aspect, in which the forecasters assigns an anticipated relative frequency, or probability, of occurrence for each category.
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On Some Issues of United States Tornado Climatology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the F-scale is more properly thought of as a damage scale than as an intensity scale, and that failing to recognize this leads to confusion and controversy regarding the Fscale ratings assigned to events in the data base.