Technical Session #4: Measurement & Observation // Community Impact & Planning

4.1 An examination of the behavior of subvortices in the 31 May 2013 El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado as observed by a rapid-scan, polarimetric, mobile radar
Jeffrey C. Snyder*1, Kyle J. Thiem2, Howard B. Bluestein3, Jana B. Houser4
1NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK; 2National Weather Service, Peachtree City, GA; 3School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; 4Department of Geography, Ohio University, Athens, OH

4.2 Estimation of post tornado damage patterns in agricultural cornfields
Yijun Liao*1, Daniel Rhee2, Richard L. Wood1, Franklin T. Lombardo2, M. Ebrahim Mohammadi1
1University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA; 2University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801-2919, USA

4.3 Post-windstorm damage assessment of built-up areas from point clouds using three-dimensional convolutional neural network
M. Ebrahim Mohammadi1 and Richard L. Wood*1
1University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA.

4.4 Development of a residential tornado damage database
Pataya Scott*1,2, Marc Levitan2, Frank Lombardo3, Samuel Spector2, Daan Liang1
1Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA; 2National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA; 3University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 60801-2919, USA

4.5 Application of the residential tornado damage database to quantify wind speeds associated with common damage types
Marc Levitan*1, Pataya Scott1,2, Timothy McIntyre1, Harrison Kraus1
1National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA; 2Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA.

4.6 Overview of methods used in the development of tornado risk maps for building design
L. A. Twisdale1, Marc Levitan*2 and Long Phan2
1Applied Research Associates, Inc. Raleigh, N C, USA; 2National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

*Presenting author