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==Geography== Supercells can occur anywhere in the world under the right weather conditions. The first storm to be identified as the supercell type was the [[Wokingham]] storm over [[England]], which was studied by [[Keith Browning]] and Frank Ludlam in 1962.<ref name="Browning">{{cite journal|last=Browning |first=K.A. |author-link=Keith Browning |author2=F.H. Ludlum |title=Airflow in Convective Storms |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society |volume=88 |issue=376 |pages=117β35 |date=Apr 1962 |url=http://www.rmets.org/pdf/qj62browning.pdf |doi=10.1002/qj.49708837602 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307213602/http://www.rmets.org/pdf/qj62browning.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-07 |bibcode=1962QJRMS..88..117B }}</ref> Browning did the initial work that was followed up by [[Leslie R. Lemon|Lemon]] and [[Charles A. Doswell III|Doswell]] to develop the modern conceptual model of the supercell.<ref name="Lemon/Doswell">{{cite journal |last = Lemon |first = Leslie R. |author-link = Leslie R. Lemon |author2=C.A. Doswell |title = Severe Thunderstorm Evolution and Mesocyclone Structure as Related to Tornadogenesis |journal = Mon. Wea. Rev. |volume = 107 |issue = 9 |pages = 1184β97 |date = Sep 1979 |doi = 10.1175/1520-0493(1979)107<1184:STEAMS>2.0.CO;2 |bibcode = 1979MWRv..107.1184L |doi-access = free }}</ref> To the extent that records are available, supercells are most frequent in the [[Great Plains]] of the central United States and southern Canada extending into the southeastern U.S. and northern [[Mexico]]; east-central Argentina and adjacent regions of Uruguay; Bangladesh and parts of eastern India; South Africa; and eastern Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bom.gov.au/inside/services_policy/public/sevwx/vic/20100603_thunder.shtml |title=Thunderstorm in Victoria 06 Mar 2010 |publisher=Bom.gov.au |date=2010-03-06 |access-date=2012-03-11}}</ref> Supercells occur occasionally in many other [[mid-latitude]] regions, including Eastern China and throughout Europe. The areas with highest frequencies of supercells are similar to those with the most occurrences of tornadoes; see [[tornado climatology]] and [[Tornado Alley]].
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