I always thought that the Hampstead storm was what the Americans (&
Australians) defined as a "severe pulse" storm - that is, a severe single
cell without rotation.

The Wokingham Storm -was- the one that started the current thinking on
steady state storms. It was Browning & Ludlum that got this one (ukmo, not
nssl). One for the pub trivia games this. The couple of papers produced are
still required reading and are still referred to, they got it spot on with
the crude equipment of the time right down to the bwer (echo- free vault)
analysis. Perhaps we should all meet in Wokingham sometime preferably when
there is another "severe right" coming our way after we've all been at the
pub (:

There was another (severe AND tornadic) storm in London in the 1950's but
I've got no further info on this one just some faded memories of some pathe
newsreel footage of the time.

I've got quite a lot of photographs and webcam captures of what I've
regarded as suspicious looking single cells - normally in north or north
west wind regimes when the brn has been within range (supercells possible)
but low cloud height / CAPE. I've reported quite a few on this ng over the
years - some with quite dramatic rotation! My older - style website had
quite a few pix, unfortunately now archived. I'll trawl some of them out and
post the links to the pictures up as well as pdf'ing the papers and posting
them up too, they're surprisingly quite readable even by folk with a basic
interest in meteorology.

It all seems a lot easier going after severe storms now than a few years ago
with Bernhard Oker's website, Estofex, Topkarten and the rest! Pity about
the road network..

However summer approaches and the time for the severe thunderstorm season
and reports of H7 hail rather than a few flakes of snow, time for some brn
in range and high CAPE perhaps this year i'll get the real I am (:

Les

"TudorHgh"


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