Tornado outbreaks associated with landfalling hurricanes in the north Atlantic Basin: 1954–2004

Tornadoes are a notable potential hazard associated with landfalling hurricanes. The purpose of this paper is to discriminate hurricanes that produce numerous tornadoes (tornado outbreaks) from those that do not (nonoutbreaks). The data consists of all hurricane landfalls that affected the United St...

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Main Authors: Meteorol Atmos Phys, S. M. Verbout, D. M. Schultz, L. M. Leslie, H. E. Brooks, D. J. Karoly, K. L. Elmore
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.622.7332
http://www.bama.ua.edu/~jcsenkbeil/gy4570/verbout et al.pdf
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Summary:Tornadoes are a notable potential hazard associated with landfalling hurricanes. The purpose of this paper is to discriminate hurricanes that produce numerous tornadoes (tornado outbreaks) from those that do not (nonoutbreaks). The data consists of all hurricane landfalls that affected the United States from the North Atlantic basin from 1954 to 2004 and the United States tornado record over the same period. Because of the more than twofold increase in the number of reported tornadoes over these 51 years, a simple least-squares linear regression (‘‘the expected number of tornadoes’’) was fit to the annual number of tornado reports to represent a baseline for comparison. The hurricanes were sorted into three categories. The first