PERiLS Tornado Study Webinar
Channel: NOAA Weather Partners
Date: 03/03/2022

PERiLS (Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms), one of the largest and most comprehensive severe storm field campaigns to date, will take place across the Southeast United States in the late winter and spring periods of 2022 and 2023.

The webinar provides information about the PERiLS field campaign, including research objectives, why this research is needed, locations, descriptions of research instruments, and how it will all work.


0:00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Keli Pirtle, NOAA
0:02:49 PERiLS research objectives – Tony Lyza, CWRO/NOAA NSSL
0:09:05 Why study tornadoes in the Southeast US? – Erik Rasmussen, NOAA NSSL
0:14:19 Audience Questions
0:20:32 Instruments: Mobile radar – Mike Biggerstaff, OU
0:26:35 Instruments: Profilers – Kevin Knupp, UAH
0:33:14 Instruments: CLAMPS – Elizabeth Smith, NOAA NSSL
0:39:14 Instruments: Soundings – Mike Coniglio, NOAA NSSL
0:45:33 Audience Questions
0:52:15 Instruments: Sticknets – Chris Weiss, TTU
0:57:49 Instruments: Mobile mesonet – Sean Waugh, NOAA NSSL
1:02:23 Instruments: Lightning mapping array – Vanna Chmielewski, CIWRO/NSSL
1:08:15 Damage Assessments – Melissa Wagner, CIWRO/NSSL
1:12:38 Audience Questions


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