Wet bulb zero heights as an indicator of surface hail size for the April 3, 1989 severe weather episode

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• Personal Author:
  Shanklin, Ricky L.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Weather Service. Central Region
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; CR (Central Region)
• Description:
  Numerous incidents of large hail were reported across southern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana, northeast Texas, Arkansas and Kentucky on the afternoon and evening of April 3, 1989. Altogether there were 112 reports of 3/4 inch or larger hail with 64 (57 percent) of these over primarily southern Missouri and Arkansas (see Fig. 1). Hail sizes in the one to two inch range accounted for a rather large 79 (71 percent) of these reports. The largest hail was concentrated across southern Missouri, southern Illinois and far southern Indiana with each state having two reports of baseball size (2 and 3/4 inch) hail. Along with the large hail, there were 23 tornado reports (two in Tennessee) and 15 reports of wind damage or winds in excess of 50 knots.
• Keywords:
  Hail Meteorology Severe Storms Severe Storms
• Series:
  Central Region Technical attachment   89-37
• Document Type:
  Technical Attachment
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  Public domain
• Compliance:
  Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d7d262885c8175167b62ac16e092d295d1df2e026ef58b3c285eb4a25492f07c
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/33822/noaa_33822_DS1.pdf
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