A methodology to conduct wind damage field surveys for high-impact weather events of convective origin

Rodríguez, Oriol; Bech, Joan; Soriano, Juan de Dios; Gutiérrez, Delia; Castán, Salvador

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1513-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1513-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1513-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 5

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29 May 2020

Research article |

| 29 May 2020

A methodology to conduct wind damage field surveys for high-impact weather events of convective origin

Oriol Rodríguez, Joan Bech, Juan de Dios Soriano, Delia Gutiérrez, and Salvador Castán

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RC1: 'Review/Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Oct 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1', Oriol Rodriguez, 13 Dec 2019
RC2: 'Important practical work, inappropriate format', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Oct 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2', Oriol Rodriguez, 13 Dec 2019
RC3: 'referee comment', Anonymous Referee #3, 25 Oct 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #3', Oriol Rodriguez, 13 Dec 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (13 Dec 2019) by Ricardo Trigo

AR by Oriol Rodriguez on behalf of the Authors (17 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (19 Feb 2020) by Ricardo Trigo

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (04 Mar 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (09 Mar 2020)

Suggestions for revision or reasons for rejection

General comments

1. The aim of the study needs to be stated more clearly.
2. The methodology is based on previous studies. The studied are just cited. There is no review of the previous literature to show how the methodology described in the current study compares with the previous methodologies.

Minor comments

line 2: Replace „extension” with „extent”.
lines 4–5: „[...] (i.e., tornado, downburst, straight-line winds)”.
line 5: „[...] between 2004–2018”.
line 6: „systematic collection of images”? This is also repeated toward the end of the phrase.
line 6: The word "systematic" is used too many times in the manuscript (developing a methodology already means that will be applied systematically).
line 8: „ recorded during the damage field survey”.
line 18: „surface wind of convective origin”.
line 18–19: „(i.e., tornadoes, downbursts, straight-line winds)”.
line 19: „or even fatalities”.
line 22: „[...] devoted to the study of these phenomena”.
line 23: „(e.g., Strader et al., 2015)”.
line 24: Replace „see for example” with „e.g.”.
line 30: Replace “discriminating” with “identifying”.
line 36: “allows a detailed characterization”.
lines 39–44: This paragraph needs to be rewritten and reduced for clarity; one way will be to combine this paragraph with the next one and thus to state more clearly the aim of the study.
line 44: No mention of the study area so far.
line 47–57: state more clearly the aim of the study.
lines 72–74: I think this example should be included in the manuscript as a section.
line 76: describe “previous related work”.
line 85: Remove “to geolocate damage, as mentioned previously”.
lines 84–92: Maybe this information can be summarized in a table.
line 97: “[…] in three stages (Fig. 2)”.
lines 97–101: Add references to subsections.
line 102: “To properly […]”.
line 106–107: “[…] during the survey (Fig. 3)”.
line 107: “Thus, to optimize time and resources, a detailed […]”.
line 110: “[…] reports nowadays should be collected”.
line 115–116: Why a “developed funnel cloud”? Why not a tornado? Funnel cloud may not be associated with damages. This aspect should be argued more strongly.
line 115: replace “(see Fig. 4)” with “(Fig. 4)”.
line 117: “by contacting their authors”.
line 119: “if damage reports are not available”.
line 119: Define “developed funnel cloud”.
line 120–121: Provide details on how to locate these events based on radar and lightning data, or at least include references.
line 121: This sentence should be rewritten for clarity.
line 127–130: Is this not delaying the damage survey.
line 134: Define “indirect eyewitnesses”.
line 142: “In this case”.
line 145: Replace “relaxing” with “reducing”.
line 154: “of the damage”.
line 155: “to recover quickly”.
line 157: “(Fig. 2)”.
line 159: “[…] interviews with eyewitnesses”.
line 176: “[…] to be performed during”.
line 197: “[…] might not be”.
line 208: “(Fig. 6a)”.
line 218: Replace “To solve that” with “In this case”.
line 222: Replace “reported” with “developed”.
line 230: “[…] in their own words”.
line 238: This sentence is about photo/videos or eyewitnesses?
line 262–282: Add these as bullet points.
line 328: Remove extra “)”.
lines 340–342: I do not understand this sentence.
line 365: “[…] how debris”.
lines 368–370: The authors should comment on the results, this is just a description of the figures.
References: Some of the abbreviations for the journals are not in the correct format (e.g., B. Am, Meteorolog. Soc. should be Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc.).
Figure 1: This figure is incomplete, see the inset map.

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by editor and referees) (10 Mar 2020) by Ricardo Trigo

AR by Oriol Rodriguez on behalf of the Authors (30 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (01 Apr 2020) by Ricardo Trigo

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (14 Apr 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (14 Apr 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (14 Apr 2020) by Ricardo Trigo

AR by Oriol Rodriguez on behalf of the Authors (18 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (02 May 2020) by Ricardo Trigo

AR by Oriol Rodriguez on behalf of the Authors (03 May 2020)

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Post-event damage assessment data are used to study the consequences of natural hazards, such as strong convective winds (i.e. tornadoes, downbursts). The information gathered during fieldwork can be used to characterize those events, which is necessary to build up and maintain robust and homogeneous databases of severe weather cases and high-impact weather events. Accordingly, a methodology to carry out damage surveys of strong-convective-wind events is presented in this article.