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. Browning did the initial work that was followed up by Lemon and Doswell to develop the modern conceptual model of the supercell. 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, as well as east-central Argentina and adjacent regions of Uruguay, Bangladesh and parts of eastern India, South Africa, and eastern Australia, but occasionally occur in many mid-latitude regions, especially eastern China and throughout Europe. The areas with highest frequencies of supercells are similar to areas with most occurrences of tornadoes, see tornado climatology and Tornado Alley.
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