National thunderstorm frequencies for the contiguous United States

Technical Report · Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:5250995

Changery, M J

Individual thunderstorm beginning and ending times were extracted from surface manuscript records for 450 stations for the general period of record 1948-1977. Mean number of thunderstorms were determined for each location on a monthly and annual basis and then analyzed for the contiguous U.S.

• Research Organization: National Climatic Center, Asheville, NC (USA); Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
• OSTI ID: 5250995
• Report Number(s): NUREG/CR-2252
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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