Lightning Activity in a Hail Producing Storm Observed with…观测到冰雹的闪电活动.pdfVIP

JUNE 2011 E M E R S I C E T A L . 1809 Lightning Activity in a Hail-Producing Storm Observed with Phased-Array Radar C. EMERSIC* Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Convective Systems, University of Oklahoma, and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma P. L. HEINSELMAN AND D. R. MACGORMAN NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma E. C. BRUNING Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, Maryland (Manuscript received 30 July 2010, in final form 9 October 2010) ABSTRACT This study examined lightning activity relative to the rapidly evolving kinematics of a hail-producing storm on 15 August 2006. Data were provided by the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased-Array Radar, the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array, and the National Lightning Detection Network. This analysis is the first to compare the electrical characteristics of a hail-producing storm with the reflectivity and radial velocity structure at temporal resolutions of less than 1 min. Total flash rates increased to approximately 220 min21 as the storm’s updraft first intensified, leveled off during its first mature stage, and then decreased for 2–3 min despite the simultaneous development of another updraf