Simulations of shallow supercell storms in landfalling hurricane environments

Supercell thunderstorms are well known to be the most prolific producers of significant tornadoes. Because of the differences between the midlatitude and hurricane tornado environments, it is natural to ask whether the structure and dynamics of the tornadic storms occurring in each are different. In this work, an attempt is made to study the structure of these hurricane-spawned storms by examining numerical simulations initialized with conditions observed in tornado-producing landfilling tropical cyclones, and comparing the dynamics of the simulated storms found therein to a control simulation of a Great Plains supercell.