Environmental and Storm-Scale Controls on Close Proximity Supercells Observed by TORUS on 8 June 2019

Wilson, Matthew B.; Houston, Adam L.; Ziegler, Conrad L.; Stechman, Daniel M.; Argrow, Brian; Frew, Eric W.; Swenson, Sara; Rasmussen, Erik; Coniglio, Michael

doi:10.1175/MWR-D-23-0002.1

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Environmental and Storm-Scale Controls on Close Proximity Supercells Observed by TORUS on 8 June 2019

2023
By Wilson, Matthew B. ; Houston, Adam L. ; Ziegler, Conrad L. ; ...
Source: Monthly Weather Review, 151(12), 3013-3035

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Wilson, Matthew B. ; Houston, Adam L. ; Ziegler, Conrad L. ; Stechman, Daniel M. ; Argrow, Brian ; ... More +

Wilson, Matthew B. ; Houston, Adam L. ; Ziegler, Conrad L. ; Stechman, Daniel M. ; Argrow, Brian ; Frew, Eric W. ; Swenson, Sara ; Rasmussen, Erik ; Coniglio, Michael Less -
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The Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells (TORUS) field project observed two supercells on 8 June 2019 in northwestern Kansas and far eastern Colorado. Although these storms occurred in close spatial and temporal proximity, their evolutions were markedly different. The first storm struggled to maintain itself and eventually dissipated. Meanwhile, the second supercell developed just after and slightly to the south of where the first storm dissipated, and then tracked over almost the same location before rapidly intensifying and going on to produce several tornadoes. The objective of this study is to determine why the first storm struggled to survive and failed to produce mesocyclonic tornadoes while the second storm thrived and was cyclically tornadic. Analysis relies on observations collected by the TORUS project—including unoccupied aircraft system (UAS) transects and profiles, mobile soundings, surface mobile mesonet transects, and dual-Doppler wind syntheses from the NOAA P-3 tail Doppler radars. Our results indicate that rapid changes in the low-level wind profile, the second supercell’s interaction with two mesoscale boundaries, an interaction with a rapidly intensifying new updraft just to its west, and the influence of a strong outflow surge likely account for much of the second supercell’s increased strength and tornado production. The rapid evolution of the low-level wind profile may have been most important in raising the probability of the second supercell becoming tornadic, with the new updraft and the outflow surge leading to a favorable storm-scale evolution that increased this probability further.
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Monthly Weather Review, 151(12), 3013-3035
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