Hail Catastrophe 13 May 2003 - Weather situation: 13 May 12.00 UTC

by ZAMG

A Cold Front cloud band is situated over Austria. In the eastern part of Austria several MCSs can be observed. Whilst they are separate from the front, they do develop in the prefrontal, unstable airmass. The MCSs are charcterised by the following features:

situated in an area of WA
Showalter index has decreased over the last 6 hours (-3)
Θ_e forms a ridge

13 May 2003/12.00 UTC - Meteosat IR image; red: temperature advection 700 hPa, green: equivalent thickness, blue: TFP	13 May 2003/12.00 UTC - Meteosat IR image; yellow: Showalter index, magenta: Showalter index = 0


13 May 2003/12.00 UTC - Meteosat IR image; magenta: Θe 850 hPa

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