Florida Keys National Weather Service

LOCAL RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Kasper, K. B., 2011:  A climatology of tropical cyclone-induced tornadoes in the Florida Keys.  Preprints, 24th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Seattle, WA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., P471. [PDF 1.6 mb]

Christensen, T., K. B. Kasper, C. Jacobson, M. Strahan, W. Skirving, and M. Eakin, 2010:  Forecasting coral bleaching weather for the Florida Reef tract.  Linking Science to Management:  A Conference & Workshop on the Florida Keys Marine Ecosystem, Duck Key, FL, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agriculatural Sciences.

Kasper, K. B., 2009:  A study of the impacts of a Saharan air layer plume over the Florida Keys.  Preprints, Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, Phoenix, AZ, Amer. Meteor. Soc., P1.5. [PDF 2.6 mb]

Devanas, A., D. Gregoria, K. B. Kasper, and P. Santos, 2008:  Tropical cyclone induced tornadoes associated with the formation of Tropical Storm Barry.  Preprints, Tropical Meteorology Special Symposium, New Orleans, LA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., JP3.16. [ PDF 1.2 mb]

Feltgen, D., and A. Devanas, 2005:  Video Hurricane Local Statement.  Preprints, 21st International Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, San Diego, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., P2.29.

Parke, M. C., and A. Devanas, 2004:  Evaluation of the national marine verification program at WFO Key West.  Preprints, 20th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/16th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction, Seattle, WA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., P2.24.

G. E. Rader, and J. Gross, 2000:  Tornado outbreak in the middle and upper Florida Keys associated with Tropical Storm Mitch.  Preprints, 20th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Orlando, FL, Amer. Meteor. Soc., P4.2.

 

TECHNICAL ATTACHMENTS

Kasper, K. B., 2000: A field forecaster visits the NOAA Science Center and NWS Headquarters. NOAA SR Technical Attachment SR/SSD 2000-15, 8 pp.

 

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENT REPORTS

Kasper, K. B., 2007:  Hurricane Wilma in the Florida Keys.  20 pp. [PDF 6.8 mb]

 

DAMAGE REPORTS

Parke, M., 2008:  Preliminary Hurricane Ike Damage Assessment Vicinity Mile Marker 74.  17 pp.

Devanas, A., 2007:  Sugarloaf Key EF0 Tornado, Friday Afternoon, June 1, 2007 Survey Report.  4 pp. 

Devanas, A., 2005:  Hurricane Katrina Tornado Damage Survey.  7 pp.

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Kasper, K. B., 2004:  Nonsupercell Tornadoes and Waterspouts in the Florida Keys.  [PPT 18 mb]

South, W., and J. Barrett, 2002:  A Severe Weather and Tropical Cyclone Climatology for the Florida Keys.

Kasper, K. B., 2002:  Spring Bird Migration Across the Florida Keys. 

Birchard, T., 1999:  Waterspout-Tornado Northwest of Sugarloaf Key, 19 September 1999.

 

 

WATERSPOUT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Golden, J. H., and H. B. Bluestein, 1994:  The NOAA-National Geographic Society Waterspout Expedition (1993).  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 2281-2288.

Schwiesow, R. L., R. E. Cupp, P. C. Sinclair, and R. F. Abbey Jr., 1981:  Waterspout velocity measurements by airborne Doppler lidar.  J. Appl. Meteor., 20, 341-348.

Leverson, V., P. C. Sinclair, and J. H. Golden, 1977:  Waterspout wind, temperature, and pressure structure deduced from aircraft measurements.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 105, 725-733.

Golden, J. H., 1977:  An assessment of waterspout frequencies along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts.  J. Appl. Meteor., 16, 231-236.

Golden, J. H., 1974:  Scale-interaction implications for the waterspout life cycle. II.  J. Appl. Meteor., 13, 693-709.

Golden, J. H., 1974:  The life cycle of Florida keys' waterspouts. I.  J. Appl. Meteor., 13, 676-692.

Golden, J. H., 1973:  Some statistical aspects of waterspout formation.  Weatherwise, 26, 108-117.

Golden, J. H., 1971:  Waterspouts and tornadoes over South Florida.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 99, 146-154.

Golden, J. H., 1968:  Waterspouts at Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida, September 2, 1967.  Weather, 23, 103-114.

Woodley, W. L., J. T. Bunting, J. H. Golden, and B. C. Halter, 1967:  Aircraft observations in the immediate vicinity of two waterspouts.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 95, 799-803.

Boynton, H. R., 1899:  Waterspouts at Key West, Fla.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 27, 351-352.

 

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