A severe hailstorm over Guwahati airport and its vicinity on 2nd April 2006 : Synoptic and thermodynamic perspectives

Authors

  • H. R. BISWAS Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata, India
  • G. K. DAS Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata, India
  • D. CHAKRABARTI India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India
  • P. A. KORE India Meteorological Department, Pune, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v61i3.841

Keywords:

Hailstorm, Guwahati, Synoptic, instability, Wind Shear

Abstract

Climatologically thunderstorm activity is quite common features over Guwahati Airport and its vicinity during premonsoon season. But a severe hailstorm with large size of hailstones and long duration is a rare event. Such a hailstorm with hailstone size of about 25mm occurred over Guwahati Airport (26.1°N, 91.6°E) on 2nd April, 2006 during midnight. In this paper an attempt has been made to investigate prerequisite synoptic and thermodynamic conditions of the atmosphere associated with this hailstorm. Under favourable synoptic and instability condition of thunderstorm occurrence, veering of winds over Guwahati between freezing level and 500 hPa level with vertical wind shear of horizontal winds exceeding 6.2 ms-1km-1 more appears to be conductive for the development of a hailstorm. Stability Indices viz., Showalter, K, Total-Total and Severe Weather Threat (SWEAT) index have shown predictability for this event.

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Published

01-07-2010

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H. R. . BISWAS, G. K. . DAS, D. . CHAKRABARTI, and P. A. . KORE, “A severe hailstorm over Guwahati airport and its vicinity on 2nd April 2006 : Synoptic and thermodynamic perspectives”, MAUSAM, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 391–400, Jul. 2010.

Issue

Vol. 61 No. 3 (2010): MAUSAM

Section

Shorter Contribution

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