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Tornado Forecasting Workshop with Rich Thompson - Class 1

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Tornado Forecasting Workshop

1:35

Moisture Sources

10:33

Upper Air Station Plot

13:03

Rules for Contour Analysis

13:26

Pressure Gradient

14:10

Surface Map

15:01

Conditional Instability

20:21

Free Convection

21:54

Common Sounding Terms

22:47

Virtual Temperature Correction

24:47

Virtual Temperature Profile

26:14

Assumptions

27:53

Vertical Mixing

31:00

Large-Scale Ascent

36:57

Hodograph

37:57

Storm Relative Winds

39:33

Quality of the Observations

44:11

Gradient Wind Balance

1:03:17

Centrifugal Acceleration

1:03:34

Objectively Analyzed Map

1:07:24

Mass Continuity

1:08:09

Thickness and Thermal Advection

1:09:19

Thermal Wind

1:12:15

Vorticity

1:15:15

Does the Flow Move through the Trough or Does the Air Move with the Trough

1:15:47

Qg Omega Equation

1:21:44

What Does Rising Motion Do to the Temperature Profile

1:25:52

Gradient Wind

1:32:52
Tornado Forecasting Workshop with Rich Thompson - Class 1
Come watch live as the Storm Prediction Center's Lead Forecaster Rich Thompson gives the first of many informal workshops detailing the meteorology behind tornado forecasting.

Follow along using the transcript.

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