cos90 = 0

1. Streamwise versus Crosswise Vorticity non-helical cos90 = 0 =0 FRISBEE! crosswise vortcity helical streamwisevortcity Football!

2. FFD – Forward Flank Downdraft 6 km 6 km Composite Hodograph (Fig. 8.15 in text) RFD – Rear Flank Downdraft “The storm scale, internally generated horizontal vorticity from the FFD outflow can augment the horizontal vorticity in the ambient environment, leading to larger overall hz. vorticity available for tilting…if the environmental and storm generated hz. vorticity have components in the same direction”

3. mesocyclone west COLD POOL north

4. Counter-Rotating Vortex Pairs UPDRAFT HAS NO PREFERRED ROTATION AT THIS POINT!

5. Source of midlevel rotation only 2-3 km? BAMS – VORTEX2 (Wurman et al. 2012)

6. Fig. 8.36 Mesomet Eq. 8.8

7. L w' w' L STRAIGHT LINE SPECTRUM CIRCULAR non-linear/storm splitting linear

8. pure westerly shear storm-relative winds anti-streamwise streamwise KLEMP FIG 2.6A KLEMP FIG. 2.26 a,b Mesomet Text Fig. 8.40a

9. Storm Splitt and Lateral Propagation…(straight hodograph) Mesomet Text Fig. 8.35a Mesomet Text Fig. 8.35b

10. pre-split N post-split E aloft sfc midlevels w’z’ < 0 midlevels same hodograph! w’z’ > 0

11. KLEMP FIG 2.6B KLEMP FIG. 2.26 c,d Mesomet Text Fig. 8.40b

12. Mesomet Text Fig. 8.41

13. Mesomet Text Fig. 8.40b

15. Important Questions…. What vorticitymechanism(s) are responsible for the low level mesocyclone? What vorticitymechanism(s) are responsible for the w’z’ correlation? What vorticitymechanism(s) are responsible for the mid-level rotation? What dynamics are responsible for storm splitting? What dynamics are responsible for lateral storm propagation? Note that in each case…the ‘WHY’ and ‘HOW’ are also important!!!