Following up on yesterday's feature, today's looks at a comparison of tornado warned storm motion versus the severe thunderstorm warnings near in both space in time. Sometimes the sign of a storm that can produce a tornado is when the storm's path deviates from others around it. Typically, this deviation is a slight turn to the right (called right turners). Based on forecasted storm motions, just slightly more than half of the storms exhibit some bit of right turning. Another aspect to "right turners" is a decrease in speed as the storm's circulation strengthens. Again, just over half have forecasted speeds below those of warned severe thunderstorms around it. This is by no means an exhaustive look at this topic, but hopefully an interesting chart nonetheless. The bottom chart does contain an interesting dual maximum (25kts and 40kts) that may be a sign of a separation between isolated supercells (slower speeds) with linear convective complexes (typically faster moving).

Voting:
Good = 12
Bad = 5

Tags:   nws   warnings