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Gaffin, David M.. "The Influence of Terrain during the 27 April 2011 Super Tornado Outbreak and 5 July 2012  Derecho around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park." In 26th Conference on Severe Local Storms. Nashville, TN: American Meteorological Society, 2012.

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