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MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW
Volume 151, Issue 9, Pages 2257-2277Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-23-0017.1
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Hail; Severe storms; Tornadoes; Wind; Radars/Radar observations
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Many studies have focused on identifying severe weather potential through radar observations and severe reports, but these studies tend to be limited in scale. The GridRad-Severe dataset introduces a large database that includes over 100 severe weather days per year and more than 1.3 million objectively tracked storms. This dataset allows for the evaluation of storm characteristics and severe weather production, as well as the application of different classification techniques.
Many studies have aimed to identify novel storm characteristics that are indicative of current or future severe weather potential using a combination of ground-based radar observations and severe reports. However, this is often done on a small scale using limited case studies on the order of tens to hundreds of storms due to how time-intensive this process is. Herein, we introduce the GridRad-Severe dataset, a database including ;100 severe weather days per year and upward of 1.3 million objectively tracked storms from 2010 to 2019. Composite radar volumes spanning objectively determined, report-centered domains are created for each selected day using the GridRad compositing technique, with dates objectively determined using report thresholds defined to capture the highest-end severe weather days from each year, evenly distributed across all severe report types (tornadoes, severe hail, and severe wind). Spatiotemporal domain bounds for each event are objectively determined to encompass both the majority of reports and the time of convection initiation. Severe weather reports are matched to storms that are objectively tracked using the radar data, so the evolution of the storm cells and their severe weather production can be evaluated. Herein, we apply storm mode (single-cell, multicell, or mesoscale convective system storms) and right-moving supercell classification techniques to the dataset, and revisit various questions about severe storms and their bulk characteristics posed and evaluated in past work. Additional applications of this dataset are reviewed for possible future studies.
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