Radarscope Interpretation: Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes

Radarscope Interpretation: Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
Author: Roger C. Whiton
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Total Pages: 30
Release: 1976
Genre: Radar meteorology
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This report contains material taken from the available literature on identifying severe thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes from radar echoes. Radar echo signatures indicating severe weather are consolidated for geographical areas and weather types to afford the radar meteorologist easy access to the findings of several investigators in the weather radar field. Information concerning X-band, S-band, and C-band radars is included. (Author).

On the Use of Radar in Identifying Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms

On the Use of Radar in Identifying Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms
Author: Roger C. Whiton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 1971
Genre: Radar cross sections
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This report contains material taken from the available literature on identifying severe thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes from radar echoes. Radar echo signatures indicating severe weather are consolidated for geographical areas and weather types to afford the radar meteorologist easy access to the findings of several investigators in the weather radar field. Information concerning X-band, S-band, and C-band radars is included.

On the Use of Radar in Identifying Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms

On the Use of Radar in Identifying Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms
Author: Roger C. Whiton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 19
Release: 1971
Genre: Radar cross sections
ISBN:

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This report contains material taken from the available literature on identifying severe thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes from radar echoes. Radar echo signatures indicating severe weather are consolidated for geographical areas and weather types to afford the radar meteorologist easy access to the findings of several investigators in the weather radar field. Information concerning X-band, S-band, and C-band radars is included.

Detection of Severe Local Storm Phenomena by Automated Interpretation of Radar and Storm Environment

Detection of Severe Local Storm Phenomena by Automated Interpretation of Radar and Storm Environment
Author: David Harvey Kitzmiller
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Total Pages: 42
Release: 1995
Genre: Severe storms
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Many operational features of the WSR-88D were incorporated specifically to aid forecasters in the detection of severe local storms (damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes). One interpretive product, the Severe Weather Potential (SWP) algorithm, yields an index proportional to the probability that an individual thunderstorm cell will soon produce any severe weather phenomena. The SWP is based solely on radar information, namely vertically-integrated liquid VIL and storm horizontal extent.

Hook Echoes on Radar

Hook Echoes on Radar
Author: John W. Stryker
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Total Pages: 22
Release: 1970
Genre: Cyclones
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Doppler Radar Investigation of Flow Patterns Within Severe Thunderstorms

Doppler Radar Investigation of Flow Patterns Within Severe Thunderstorms
Author: Michael J. Kraus
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Total Pages: 24
Release: 1973
Genre: Air flow
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Four severe thunderstorms were observed on a single day by the AFCRL 5.4-cm Doppler radar at Sudbury, Massachusetts. Quasihorizontal radial velocity information was used to construct maps depicting the mean within-storm flow at different elevation angles over a period of about 20 minutes. Well organized patterns in the velocity field showed either persistence or slow evolution in time throughout an appreciable range of height. The merits of this single Doppler method for the investigation of future outbreaks are discussed. (Author).