FORECAST PAREMETERS FOR DEEP CONVECTION - IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS

Provide a physical explanation of:

  1. CAPE: surface based, 100 mb mixed layer, MU, downdraft, normalized
  2. LI, K, LCL and LFC heights
  3. Effective bulk shear, bulk shear through sfc - 1, 6, and 8 km
  4. BRN shear
  5. effective SR helicity, 0-1, 3 km SR helicity
  6. supercell composite
  7. significant tornado, both fixed and effective layer
  8. non-supercell tornado
  9. significant hail
  10. derecho composite
  11. Craven/Brooks significant severe
  12. BRN
  13. MCS maintenance
  14. EHI sfc 1, 3 km
  15. VGP sfc - 3 km