Lesson 10: Assessment: Thunderstorms

This is a case study of the 3 May 1999 tornado. Data is available on McIDAS, but you have to run a couple of commands:

DATALOC ADD IMAGES PM.SSEC.WISC.EDU

IMGLIST IMAGES/AOS445.ALL FORM=BAND

DATALOC ADD MDS SILVER.SSEC.WISC.EDU

Example commands:

IMGDISP IMAGES/AOS445.1

PTLIST MDS/AOS445.ALL FORM=FILE

SFPLOT X X 14 99123 DAT=MDS/AOS445.6

RAOBPLOT X 300 X 12 1999123 DAT=MDS/AOS445.7

UACROSS 72365 72340 DAT=MDS/AOS445.4 DAY=1999123 TIME=12 PARAM=T TD

NOAA link on the storm.

VisitView enhanced V material.

IR4WINTER ENHANCMENT - download (shift-click) as binary into mcidas/data folder)

IR4SUMMER ENHANCMENT - download (shift-click) as binary into mcidas/data folder)

IR4AVHRR ENHANCMENT - download (shift-click) as binary into mcidas/data folder)

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