Technical Session #2: Measurement & Observation

2.1 Climatic role of North American low-level jets on united states regional tornadic activity
Scott Weaver*1, Stephen Baxter2, and Arun Kumar2
1National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA; 2NOAA, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, 20740, USA

2.2 An updated mobile radar-based climatology of tornado intensity and size
Joshua Wurman*1, Karen Kosiba1
1Center for Severe Weather Research

2.3 The northern tornadoes project – overview and 2017/2018 results
David Sills*1, Gregory A. Kopp2, Emilio Hong2, Joanne Kennell2, Aaron Jaffe2, Lesley Elliott2
1Environment and Climate Change Canada, King City, ON, Canada; 2Faculty of Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

2.4 Damage path investigation of the August 3, 2018 Alonsa, Manitoba tornado
Sarah Stevenson*1, Connell Miller1, Gregory A. Kopp1, Patrick McCarthy1, David Sills2
1Faculty of Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
2Environment and Climate Change Canada, King City, ON, Canada

2.5 Automated pre-disaster building images extraction from street view imagery
Ali Lenjani*1, Chul Min Yeum2, Shirley J. Dyke1, Ilias Bilionis1
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, IN, 47906, USA; 2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada

2.6 Producing 1/100 and larger scale tornadoes in a wind simulator
Arash Ashrafi1, Djordje Romanic*1, Jubayer Chowdhury1, Horia Hangan1
1WindEEE Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, N6M 0E2, Canada

*Presenting author