Thunderstorm "hot flashes"

Schaefer, Joseph T.

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Thunderstorm "hot flashes"

1987
By Schaefer, Joseph T.
Series: Central Region Technical attachment 87-16

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Personal Author:

Schaefer, Joseph T.
Corporate Authors:

United States. National Weather Service. Central Region
NOAA Program & Office:

NWS (National Weather Service) ; CR (Central Region)
Description:

Thunderstorm outflow is characterized by cool moist air and gusty, frequently violent winds right? Wrong! On occasion, thunderstorm downdrafts (downbursts, microbursts) produce dramatic surface warming along with a large drop in relative humidity, and strong, gusty surface winds. Although such a "hot flash" or "heat burst" is a rare enough event that it is seldom seen on SAO roundups, reports of such events from other observers surface several times a year.
Keywords:

Meteorology Severe Storms Severe Storms
Series:

Central Region Technical attachment 87-16
Document Type:

Technical Attachment
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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Public domain
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https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/33768/noaa_33768_DS1.pdf
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