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Europe TS Risk

  
Ingredients

3 main ingredients + a secondary for severe storms:

 

- Instability: Conditional, Potential, Latent

- Lift: Low level convergence, Frontal, Orographic, Dynamic/upper level divergence

- Moisture: Sources, Location

- Wind shear: Updraft tilt (speed), Rotating updraft (directional)

 

Colours refer to ingredients section below:

Instability, Lift, Moisture, Wind shear

Thunderstorm Probability + Thompson Index

Thompson Index Criteria: Potential + Severity

 

< 20: Weak Potential for TS

20 to 30: Moderate Potential for TS

30 to 40: Strong Potential for TS

40 to 50: Very Strong TS of thunderstorms

> 50: Extreme Potential of thunderstorms

 

From 35 upwards, potential of severe TS

Severe TS: Different countries = different criteria

 

United Kingdom:

  • Any force tornado

  • 20 mm (0.79 in) min size hail

  • 89 km/h (55 mph) min wind speed

  • "Conducive to flash flooding" rainfall rate

 

extremely severe convective weather phenomena:

  • A tornado of class F2 or stronger

  • At least 5.0 cm hail size

  • Wind gusts with a speed of at least 33 m/s (about 119 km/h or 65 knots)

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