Radar Signatures for Severe Convective Weather
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- Languages: English, Spanish
- Publish Date: 2010-12-22
- Last Updated On: 2017-05-23
- Skill Level: 3
- Completion Time: 1.25 - 1.50 h
- Includes Audio: no
- Required Plugins: none
- Topics:
Convective Weather, Radar Meteorology -
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This resource is intended for use as a job aid by operational weather forecasters in live warning situations and as a reference tool to better understand some aspects of severe thunderstorm warning events. Thumbnail images show typical representatives for sixteen radar reflectivity and velocity signatures as well as three primary severe storm types. Each signature links to content describing detection techniques and conceptual and diagnostic information to help determine storm severity. The majority of the examples shown are southern hemisphere storms in Australia; examples from the northern hemisphere are noted.
