A WORLD RECORD RAINFALL RATE AT HOLT, MISSOURI - WAS IT DUE TO COLD FRONTOGENESIS ALOFT

Authors
LOCATELLI JD HOBBS PV
Citation
Jd. Locatelli et Pv. Hobbs, A WORLD RECORD RAINFALL RATE AT HOLT, MISSOURI - WAS IT DUE TO COLD FRONTOGENESIS ALOFT, Weather and forecasting, 10(4), 1995, pp. 779-785
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Metereology & Atmospheric Sciences
Journal title
Weather and forecasting → ACNP
ISSN journal
08828156
Volume
10
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
779 - 785
Database
ISI
SICI code
0882-8156(1995)10:4<779:AWRRRA>2.0.ZU;2-L
Abstract
On 22 June 1947, Holt, Missouri, experienced a world-record rainstorm when 304.8 mm (similar to 1 ft) of rain fell in 42 minutes. In this pa per, evidence is presented that this extremely heavy rain may have bee n produced by cold frontogenesis aloft (CFA). It is shown that what wa s earlier analyzed as a surface cold front was probably a drytrough, a nd that CFA was located at 700 hPa east of the drytrough, close to the location of the squall line that produced the record precipitation ra te.