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(—THIS SIDEBAR DOES NOT PRINT—) 1 Research and Development Branch QUICK START (cont.) DESIGN GUIDE Doppler Radar and Storm Environment Observations of a Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia How to change the template color theme Maritime Tornadic Supercell in Sydney, Australia 2 Climate Research Group This PowerPoint 2007 template produces a 36”x56” University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia You can easily change the color theme of your poster by going to the presentation poster. You can use it to create your research DESIGN menu, click on COLORS, and choose the color theme of your poster and save valuable time placing titles, subtitles, text, Harald RICHTER1, Joshua SODERHOLM2, James TAYLOR3, Alain PROTAT1 3Extreme Weather Desk, choice. You can also create your own color theme. and graphics. Bureau National Operations Centre Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia

We provide a series of online tutorials that will guide you through the poster design process and answer your poster production questions. To view our template tutorials, go online to PosterPresentations.com and click on HELP DESK. Introduction Kinematic assessment of Mesocyclone and Tornado Cyclone Thermodynamic Assessment of Pre-storm Environment You can also manually change the color of your background by going to VIEW > SLIDE MASTER. After you finish working on the master be sure to When you are ready to print your poster, go online to • Dual Doppler winds were derived using Terry Hills S-band Doppler radar (~36km to the north of Kurnell) • A firmly capped marine layer at 19 UTC experienced complete removal of the cap during the early go to VIEW > NORMAL to continue working on your poster. During the late morning of 16 December 2015 an EF2 PosterPresentations.com and the Kurnell radar (1.6km to the east of tornado track) morning hours (between 6 am and 10 am LT) – refer figure 10 tornado occurred 4 km southeast of Australia's busiest a)

airport – Sydney Airport. This tornado was notable in many • The tornado parent cyclone appears as a zone of strong convergence / vorticity in the southwest corner How to add Text Need assistance? Call us at 1.510.649.3001 ways: of a ~7 km wide low-level mesocyclone – refer figure 6 The template comes with a number of pre-formatted placeholders for • Just prior to tornado formation the storm ingested localised patches of enhanced 0.2-1 km storm-relative a) • A relative abundance of observations was available, b) headers and text blocks. You can add more blocks by copying and pasting helicity (SRH) – refer figure 7 including the Kurnell C-band Doppler radar located less the existing ones or by adding a text box from the HOME menu.

QUICK START than 2 km from the tornado path • The key contributor to the overall SRH values appears to be a 'vorticity sheet' within the storm inflow • The parent supercell tracked over water just off the east layer where the north-easterly inflow backs to north-westerly – refer figure 8 Text size Australian coast during its life cycle, apart from when it • AMDAR hodographs confirm very strong spatiotemporal variability in the SRH – refer figure 9 Adjust the size of your text based on how much content you have to Zoom in and out briefly crossed the Kurnell peninsula when the tornado present. The default template text offers a good starting point. Follow As you work on your poster zoom in and out to the level that occurred. the conference requirements. is more comfortable to you. • The tornado passed very close to an Automatic c) Go to VIEW > ZOOM. Weather Station (AWS) located on a jetty in Botany Bay b) How to add Tables at Kurnell which recorded a wind gust of 59.2 m s-1 (213 To add a table from scratch go to the INSERT menu and Title, Authors, and Affiliations km/h, 115kts, 132mph) at 10:33 am local time. click on TABLE. A drop-down box will help you select rows and columns. Start designing your poster by adding the title, the names of the authors, • The wind gust measured by the Kurnell AWS is an You can also copy and a paste a table from Word or another PowerPoint and the affiliated institutions. You can type or paste text into the Australian record outside of a tropical cyclone. document. A pasted table may need to be re-formatted by RIGHT-CLICK > provided boxes. The template will automatically adjust the size of your • There were several RFD pulses and strong gate to gate Figure 10. a) 18 UTC 15 December 2015 ACCESS-R (red) model sounding and 19 UTC 15 December FORMAT SHAPE, TEXT BOX, Margins. text to fit the title box. You can manually override this feature and velocity couplets associated with the parent storm prior observed Sydney Airport sounding (black); b) Soundings based on a 6-hour forecast from the 18 UTC change the size of your text. to the tornado Figure 6. Dual Doppler winds at 2325 UTC at 1.5 km AGL(left) and 2331 UTC at 2.5 km AGL (right). Color fill is ACCESS-R run valid at 23 UTC (red), the 2256 UTC AMDAR (blue), the 2258 UTC AMDAR (green) and the • Damage from the tornado was extensive with the the corresponding reflectivity from the Kurnell radar. Winds shown as vectors with increased length 2311 UTC AMDAR (black); c) Hourly soundings at 18 UTC (black), 19 UTC (red), 20 UTC (blue) and 21 UTC Graphs / Charts TIP: The font size of your title should be bigger than your name(s) and Insurance Council of Australia reporting it to be the corresponding to increased speed. 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Resize images Figure 2. a) Approximate supercell storm track from 2130 UTC 15 December to 0030 UTC 16 December ; b) PowerPoint or “Print-quality” PDF. proportionally by holding down the SHIFT key and dragging one of the Tornado damage at Kurnell. c) Enhanced still frame from video showing tornado (Courtesy of Peter Grassmayr) corner handles. For a professional-looking poster, do not distort your Print your poster images by enlarging them disproportionally. Figure 3. One minute data When you are ready to have your poster printed go online to from Kurnell AWS Figure 11. 23 UTC ACCESS-R sounding (18 UTC run) with the hodograph winds derived from the 2313 PosterPresentations.com and click on the “Order Your Poster” button. impacted by tornado. UTC dual Doppler observations at the location of the SRH maximum (red dot) in Fig. 7a. Choose the poster type the best suits your needs and submit your order. Black line indicates wind If you submit a PowerPoint document you will be receiving a PDF proof speed in knots (using left for your approval prior to printing. If your order is placed and paid for axis) and yellow line Summary and Points for Discussion before noon, Pacific, Monday through Friday, your order will ship out that indicates wind direction Figure 7: 0.2-1 km AGL storm-relative helicity based on the ORIGINAL DISTORTED same day. Next day, Second day, Third day, and Free Ground services are Corner handles (using right axis). dual-Doppler derived wind profile (shaded). Wind vectors • An EF-2 tornado crossed a small Peninsula on 16 December 2015 just 4 km southeast of Sydney Airport offered. Go to PosterPresentations.com for more information. are shown at 500 m AGL and also derived from dual Doppler. Storm motion (subjectively derived from Kurnell -1 Figure 4. • A wind gust of 59 m s was measured as the tornado moved offshore along the northern coastline of the Image Quality Check radar data around tornado time) used is 7.5 m s-1 towards Red dot Peninsula Zoom in and look at your images at 100% magnification. If they look good 19 degrees. Bold contours show 35, 45, 55 and 65 dBZ indicates • Small patches of large low-level storm-relative helicity are evident along the eastern coastline of Australia they will print well. outlines at 500 m AGL. location of just ahead of the storm and prior to the Kurnell tornado

Kurnell • In the vertical, these maxima in SRH are dominated by a sheet of large streamwise vorticity along the

interface of north-easterly flow (below) and north-westerly flow (above) • The processes for the cap removal (figure 10) are unclear, but candidates are high-based pre-existing

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