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    An outflow boundary, also known as a gust front, is a storm-scale or mesoscale boundary separating thunderstorm-cooled air (outflow) from the surrounding...
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    thunderstorm outflow boundary often approaches in otherwise clear skies as a low, thick cloud that brings with it a gust front. Low-level outflow boundaries can...
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    dash labelled SQLN or squal line, while outflow boundaries are depicted as troughs with a label of outflow boundary. Fronts are the principal cause of significant...
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  • Look up outflow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Outflow may refer to: Capital outflow, the capital leaving a particular economy Bipolar outflow, in astronomy...
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    three-dimensional boundary. The stronger the outflow boundary is, the stronger the resultant vertical wind shear will become. Weather fronts are boundaries between...
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    within determine motion. When the deep-layered wind flow is light, outflow boundary progression will determine storm movement. Since thunderstorms can...
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    area of the atmosphere which is stable in the low levels after an outflow boundary or a cold front moves through. In hydraulics, an undular bore is a...
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    virtually no vertical wind shear weaken as soon as they send out an outflow boundary in all directions, which then quickly cuts off its inflow of relatively...
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    thunderstorm Dust devil Intertropical Convergence Zone Khamsin Mistral (wind) Outflow boundary Simoom Sirocco Haboob at the Encyclopædia Britannica Farquharson, J...
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    the direction of movement of their associated storms, similar to an outflow boundary (gust front), except that the wind remains sustained for a greater...
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    outflow boundaries are depicted as troughs with a label of "OUTFLOW BOUNDARY" or "OUTFLOW BNDRY".[citation needed] Sea breeze fronts occur on sunny days...
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  • Springfield and Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Fort Campbell, Kentucky. An outflow boundary was draped over Central Illinois and Missouri from overnight convection...
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    heat burst, is created by vertical currents on the backside of old outflow boundaries and squall lines where rainfall is lacking. Heat bursts generate significantly...
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    destabilization of the atmosphere previously impacted by morning storms. An outflow boundary from that convection was expected to become the focal point for enhanced...
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    evening storms were also enhanced by the outflow boundary left behind by the morning storms over Missouri: the boundary created a strong density gradient, increased...
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    clouds. Dew point depression Surface weather analysis Weather front Outflow boundary Scott Girhard (2007-05-04). "Lecture 3 - Thunderstorms". San Antonio...
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    tilted, was continuing to approach from the northwest and an apparent outflow boundary moved just to the south of the warm front over northeastern Arkansas...
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    regions around other thunderstorms. They may also be visible as an outflow boundary hours or days after convection and can pinpoint areas of favored thunderstorm...
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    associated tornadoes, normally by the thunderstorm's own rain-cooled outflow boundary, the storms begin to dissipate. Rear inflow jets behind squall lines...
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    County, and then rapidly intensified to an F3 as it crossed a stray outflow boundary, slamming into Oak Grove, an unincorporated town west of Rock Creek...
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    condensation from the cool outflow of the storm that lifts warmer air in the ambient environment (at the outflow boundary). When present in a supercell...
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    upper-troposphere. Near the surface, the MCC exhibits high pressure, with an outflow boundary, or mesoscale cold front, at its leading edge. This high pressure is...
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    thermal boundary in northeastern Mississippi. This was an east–west oriented outflow boundary left behind by the morning squall line. This boundary is also...
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    ongoing by the time of these outlooks, focused along and north of an outflow boundary from Midland into northeastern Texas. The environment south of these...
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    poleward eastern boundary undercurrent reaching as far as north Porcupine Bank (50°N). While advancing westward, the Mediterranean Outflow becomes less saline...
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    producing very large hail and downbursts. Additionally, a stationary outflow boundary over southern Minnesota and northern Iowa encountered moderate instability...
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    producing landspouts. Landspouts can also occur due to interactions from outflow boundaries, as they can occasionally cause enhanced convergence and vorticity...
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    knots (12–17 mph). gust front See outflow boundary. gustnado A relatively weak tornado associated with the outflow at the leading edge of a thunderstorm...
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    fast-moving cold, dry outflow air from a thunderstorm is blown through a mass of stationary, warm, moist air near the outflow boundary, resulting in a "rolling"...
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    the use of an overarching symbol (a trough symbol) with a label of outflow boundary as the frontal notation. Weather portal Microscale meteorology Misoscale...
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