CONTENTS:
- Convection, Severe Thunderstorm Models, Severe
Local Storms, Stability, Changes in Stability,
Operational Scales, Climatology and The Forecast Period.
- Severe Weather Forecasting.
- Miller's Notes: Upper Air Analysis, Guide to Upper Air
Analysis.
- Forecasting Rules for Severe Local Storms, Model Analysis
Products, 200/300 mb Analysis, 500 mb Analysis, 700 mb
Analysis, 850 mb Analysis, Surface Chart, Composite
Chart, Surface Pressure Falls, Surface Pressure, Surface
Temperature, Surface Dewpoints, 850/500 mb Thickness
Chart, Upper Air Features to Monitor, Miller's Note's:
Surface Charts, Average Duration of Thunderstorms.
- Synoptic Situations, Dryline Thunderstorm Type, Frontal
Thunderstorm Type, Over-Running Type, Cold Core Low
Types, Squall line Types, Low Dewpoint Episodes, Low
Dewpoint Parameters, Northwest Flow Severe Weather
Outbreaks, Derechos.
- Miller's Notes: Air Masses, Type I Tornadic Air Mass,
Type II Air Mass, Type III Air Mass, Type IV Air Mass.
- Diagnostic Analysis using Indices, Vertical Totals Index,
Cross Totals Index, Total Totals Index, K Index, Lifted
Index, Thompson Index, Showalter Index, SWEAT Index, Wet
Bulb Zero Height, Dynamic Index, Low Level Moisture
Index, Level of Free Convection (LFC), Level of
Convective Condensation, Bulk Richardson Numbers (BRN),
SR Helicity, Energy\Helicity, Storm Relative Inflow, B+
(CAPE) Convective Available Potential Energy, Cap
Strength, Streamwise Vorticity, Equivalent Potential
Temperature -Theta-e, Nested Grid Model, NGM MOS
Thunderstorm Probability NGM 1000 - 500 MB Chart, SPOT
Index, Isallobaric Pressure, Deep Convection Index,
Convective Wind Gust Potential, Cross Section Analysis,
Final Forecast Notes, Thunderstorm Intensity Scale,
Severe Weather Long Range Forecasting.
- Radar, Conventional Radar, WRIST, Radar Index, Radar
Detection of Severe Thunderstorms, Bow Echoes and
Signatures, Severe Thunderstorm Evolution, Severe
Thunderstorm Warning, Criteria, Hail Criteria for WSR -
57/74, NEXRAD WSR-88D, Lemon's Notes, NEXRAD by Lt. Col.
Smith.
- Satellite, Significant Signatures List.
- Hail, Hail Algorithm, Radar Detection of Hail.
- Wind, Wind Shear, Hodographs, Wind Profilers, Downburst
and Microburst, Downburst Forecasting, WINDEX, Winds With
Supercell Thunderstorms, Supercells, Supercell Indices.
- Tornadoes, Fujita Scale (Revised), Violent Tornado
Outbreaks, Low Top Low Reflectivity Thunderstorms, NEXRAD
Detection of Tornadoes.
- Flash Flood Forecasting.
- Lightning and Environments.
- Geography and Severe Weather.
- The Future of Forecasting and Conclusion.
- Appendix A
- Part A: Real-time Weather Services.
- Part B: Weather Software.
- Part C: Weather Organizations.
- Appendix B - Thunderstorm Parameter Worksheet.
- Appendix C - Weather Product and Radar Product Samples.
- Appendix D - Upper Air Summary. Contacts and Bibliography.
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