Topic
Waterspout
About: Waterspout is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 125 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1910 citations. The topic is also known as: Water tornado & Non-supercell tornado over water.
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TL;DR: A condensation funnel associated with a tornadic vortex that fails to contact the ground is called a funnel cloud as discussed by the authors, and a waterspout is a tornado over a body of water.
Abstract: Tornadoes, with measured wind speeds of 125 m s−1 to perhaps 140 m s −1, are the most violent of atmospheric storms (Fig. 5.1). A tornado is defined here as a violently rotating, narrow column of air, averaging about 100 m in diameter, that extends to the ground from the interior of a cumulonimbus (or occasionally a cumulus congestus) cloud and appears as a condensation funnel pendant from cloud base and/or as a swirling cloud of dust and debris rising from the ground. Significant damage can occur at the ground even when the condensation funnel does not reach the surface. A condensation funnel associated with a tornadic vortex that fails to contact the ground is called a funnel cloud. A waterspout is a tornado over a body of water.
235 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the potential value of parameters derived from radiosonde data or data from numerical atmospheric models for the forecasting of severe weather associated with convective storms is presented focusing on the possible value of parameter derived from soundings in the proximity of large hail, tornadoes (including tornadoes over water: waterspouts) and thunderstorms.
163 citations
TL;DR: A survey on average tornadic activity in Europe conducted among the participants of the European Conference on Severe Storms (ECSS) 2002 as mentioned in this paper showed a total of 329±12 tornadoes over land and water per year based on observations, and more than twice as many cases (697±36) for an estimate of the expected true climatological number, accounting for present underreporting in many European countries.
108 citations
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TL;DR: A climatology of tornadoes in Germany using the TorDACH database up to the year 2000 is presented in this paper, where both daily and seasonal trends follow the variation of thunderstorm activity.
106 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an observational study of the tornado outbreak that took place on the 7 September 2005 in the Llobregat delta river, affecting a densely populated and urbanised area and the Barcelona International airport (NE Spain).
Abstract: . This paper presents an observational study of the tornado outbreak that took place on the 7 September 2005 in the Llobregat delta river, affecting a densely populated and urbanised area and the Barcelona International airport (NE Spain). The site survey confirmed at least five short-lived tornadoes. Four of them were weak (F0, F1) and the other one was significant (F2 on the Fujita scale). They started mostly as waterspouts and moved later inland causing extensive damage estimated in 9 million Euros, three injured people but fortunately no fatalities. Large scale forcing was provided by upper level diffluence and low level warm air advection. Satellite and weather radar images revealed the development of the cells that spawned the waterspouts along a mesoscale convergence line in a highly sheared and relatively low buoyant environment. Further analysis indicated characteristics that could be attributed indistinctively to non-supercell or to mini-supercell thunderstorms.
77 citations
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| 2021 | 5 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2017 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 |