"Iowa Bow Echo"
29 June 1998

References

COMET® Web-based Module: Mesoscale Convective Systems: Squall Lines and Bow Echoes

A case study of a well-defined bow echo with bookend vortices (Richards, M., et al.) National Weather Digest, Montgomery, AL, 21(4): 23-29, September 1997.

A case analysis of bow radar echo observation (He, Z.) Quarterly Journal of Applied Meteorology, Beijing, China, 9(1): 114-118, 1998.

The bow echo: observations, numerical simulations, and severe weather detection methods (Przybylinski, R. W.) Weather and Forecasting, Boston, MA, 10(2): 203-218, June 1995. 6

Mesovortex circulations seen by airborne Doppler radar within a bow-echo mesoscale convective system (Jorgensen, D. P., et al.) Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, 74(11): 2146-2157, November 1993.

Meteorological conditions associated with bow echo development in convective storms (Johns, R. H.) Weather and Forecasting, Boston, MA, 8(2): 294-299, June 1993.

The evolution and structure of a "bow-echo-microburst" event. Part I: The microburst (Lee, W.-C., et al.) Monthly Weather Review, Boston, MA, 120(10): 2188-2210, October 1992.

The evolution and structure of a "bow-echo-microburst" event. Part II: The bow echo (Lee, W.-C., et al.) Monthly Weather Review, Boston, MA, 120(10): 2211-2225, October 1992.

Reliability of the bow echo as an important severe weather signature (Przybylinski, R. W., et al.) IN: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, Kansas City, MO., Technical Memorandum (NOAA TM NWS CR-76), Sept., 1985, p. 1-6.

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