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Wind and Structures
  Volume 11, Number 2, March 2008 , pages 137-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/was.2008.11.2.137
 


A forensic study of the Lubbock-Reese downdraft of 2002
J. D. Holmes, H. M. Hangan, J. L. Schroeder, C. W. Letchford and K. D. Orwig

 
Abstract
    This paper discusses engineering aspects of the rear-flank downdraft that was recorded near Lubbock, Texas on 4 June 2002, and produced a gust wind speed nearly equal to the design value (50-year return period) for the region. The general characteristics of the storm, and the decomposition of the time histories into deterministic
 
Key Words
    downdraft; rear-flank; supercell; thunderstorm; turbulence; transmission-line.
 
Address
J. D. Holmes1,2 and H. M. Hangan2
1JDH Consulting, Mentone, Victoria, 3194 Australia
2University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B9, Canada
J. L. Schroeder; Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
C. W. Letchford; University of Tasmania, Private Bag 65, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
K. D. Orwig; Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
 

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