Information on Local Studies  

COMET Study 1:
Primarily for meteorologists... A detailed meteorological overview of the May 17, 1999 derecho that caused widespread wind damage across parts of the Paducah County Warning Area. There are numerous very large AVI and JPG files, so download time may be excessive. However, it is worth the wait for these quality radar and satellite loops. This training sequence was put together by Pat Spoden, SOO at the Paducah office.

COMET Study 2:
Also primarily for meteorologists... A detailed meteorological overview of the May 5, 1996 derecho. This event also caused considerable wind damage across the Paducah County Warning Area. There are fewer huge AVI and JPG files, however, download time may be several minutes for a few files.

You may want to visit the COMET website.

Preprints and Formal Publications

The following papers were published in the 19th Conference on Severe Local Storms Preprints (14-18 September 1998, Minneapolis, MN) by the American Meteorological Society.

The 4 May 2003 Tri-State Supercells (pdf version; large file)

Observations of the 17 June 1997 Tornadoes

Observations of Flow Structure and Mesoscale Circulations Associated with the 5 May 1996 Asymmetric Derecho in the Lower Ohio Valley

Summaries from various research papers