Data associated with "Lightning and radar characteristics of tornadic cells in landfalling tropical cyclones"

These data include all tropical cyclone tornado reports from 2013–2020, as part of all data from 1995–2022, included in the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) Tropical Cyclone TORnado database (TCTOR; Edwards and Mosier, 2022) used in the following publication:

Schenkel, B., K. Calhoun, T. Sandmael, M. Ake, Z. Fruits, B. Kassel, and I. Schick, 2023: Lightning and radar characteristics of tornadic cells in landfalling tropical cyclones. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmospheres, accepted.

Each specific tropical cyclone tornado record has been extracted from the broader SPC tornado database, for all Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico tropical cyclones impacting the continental United States from 1995–2022. The tornado records were analyzed individually to determine their presence within the circulation envelope of either a classified or remnant tropical cyclone, without regard to fixed radii from tropical cyclone center, inland extent, temporal cutoffs before or after landfall, or other such arbitrary thresholds that may either exclude tropical cyclone events or include non-tropical cyclone tornadoes unnecessarily. These data will not be updated regularly.

Citation for SPC TCTOR dataset: Edwards, R., & Mosier, R. M. (2022). Over a quarter century of TCTOR: Tropical cyclone tornadoes in the WSR-88D era [Dataset]. In Proc., 30th conf. on severe local storms (p. 171). Santa Fe, NM.