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Article: An Example of the Use of Mobile, Doppler Radar Data for Tornado Verification
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- Weather and Forecasting
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright American Meteorological Society Jun 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
On 16 May 2003, two ground-based, mobile, Doppler radars scanned a potentially tornadic supercell in the Texas Panhandle intermittently from ~0200 to 0330 UTC. The storm likely was tornadic, but because it was dark, visual confirmation of any tornadoes was not possible. A damage survey was completed after the storm moved through the area. The final conclusion of the damage survey prior to this analysis was that there were two tornadoes near Shamrock, Texas: one that formed prior to 0300 UTC and one that formed at or after 0300 UTC. High-resolution, mobile, Doppler radar data of the supercell were compared with the damage survey information at different times. The location of the ...