FORECAST PAREMETERS FOR DEEP CONVECTION - IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS
Provide a physical explanation of:
- CAPE: surface based, 100 mb mixed layer, MU, downdraft, normalized
- LI, K, LCL and LFC heights
- Effective bulk shear, bulk shear through sfc - 1, 6, and 8 km
- BRN shear
- effective SR helicity, 0-1, 3 km SR helicity
- supercell composite
- significant tornado, both fixed and effective layer
- non-supercell tornado
- significant hail
- derecho composite
- Craven/Brooks significant severe
- BRN
- MCS maintenance
- EHI sfc 1, 3 km
- VGP sfc - 3 km