Reply to “Comments on ‘Double Impact: When Both Tornadoes and Flash Floods Threaten the Same Place at the Same Time’”

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• Journal Title:
  Weather and Forecasting
• Personal Author:
  Nielsen, Erik R. ; Herman, Gregory R. ; Tournay, Robert C. ; Peters, John M. ; Schumacher, Russ S.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research)
• Description:
  We greatly appreciate the comments by Bunkers and Doswell (2016, hereafter BD16) on our earlier paper (Nielsen et al. 2015, hereafter N15). Such commentary allows for continued and open advancement of the scientific body of research on concurrent, collocated tornado and flash flood (referred to here as TORFF) events. BD16 discuss the importance that storm motion can have in TORFF events, especially when it comes to high-precipitation (HP; Moller et al. 1994; Smith et al. 2001) supercells; investigate the details of slow-moving tornado-producing storms; and clarify the relationships between convective available potential energy (CAPE), precipitation efficiency, and rainfall rate. While we agree in principle with all the comments made by BD16, there are some important points of discussion that we would like to bring forward.
• Source:
  Weather and Forecasting, 31(5), 1723-1727
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1175/waf-d-16-0151.1
• ISSN:
  0882-8156 ; 1520-0434
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  American Meteorological Society
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  Grant no. NA14OAR4320125
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Library
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