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COMET_CASE_019: COMET Case Study 019: Oklahoma City Tornado

Summary

Case 019 focuses on the severe convective event that affected much of northern and central Oklahoma and south central Kansas. Tornados in Oklahoma and Kansas resulted in 48 deaths and several hundred injuries

Objectives:

This case provides data from these deadly tornados to allow more in depth study of the event.

Data access

Datasets from this project

Additional information

GCMD Name A - C > COMET > Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training > 5c70d6af-b73d-418e-a793-47481302eeb5
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Temporal coverage

Begin Date 1999-05-03 00:00:00
End Date 1999-05-04 23:59:59

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 40.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 34.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -102.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -95.00

Related projects

Parent project COMET: COMET Case Studies
NSF

This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.