Elevated mixed layers in the regional severe storm environment: conceptual model and case studies.

Abstract

A conceptual model of the evolution of the severe local storm environment is discussed in conjunction with three case studies drawn from data obtained during the 1979 SESAME field program. The conceptual model describes how a particular configuration of topography and air flow can produce a low-level restraining inversion or 'lid' which focuses the location and even enhances the intensity of severe local storms.-from Authors