freq_&_severity Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Hello, I am interested in the size of historic hail swaths. More specifically, what is the expected size of the bounding box/bounding ellipse of a hail swath, and what is the measure of variability? Does anyone have any helpful comments or papers/resources to point me towards? I've tried searching but I have not found much. So far I have found that, "[hail swaths] can range in size from a few acres to an area 10 miles wide and 100 miles long." [1] Your help is greatly appreciated! [1] http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/hail/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eskimo Joe Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 I found this article, hope it helps you out some: https://www.disastersafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013-Characteristics-of-Severe-Hail-Field-Research-Summary_IBHS.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocoAko Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 I haven't read enough of the work in detail to know if it deals specifically with statistics of hail swath size, but there should be lots of valuable information from the Severe Hail and Verification Experiment (SHAVE) project. http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/shave/index.php http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/shave/pubs.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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