Data · dataset · 2026
An example of the use of mobile, Doppler radar data for tornado verification
Listed in National Center for Atmospheric Research
On 16 May 2003, two ground-based, mobile, Doppler radars scanned a potentially tornadic supercell in the Texas Panhandle intermittently from â¼0200 to 0330 UTC.
Description
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 first tornado damage path was not consistent with the locations of the low-level circulations in the supercell identified through the mobile, Doppler radar data.
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The damage within the first path, which consisted mostly of downed trees, may have been caused by straight-line winds in a squall line that moved through the area after the passage of the supercell. The mobile, Doppler radar data did not provide any supporting evidence for the first tornado, but the data did support the existence of the second tornado in Wheeler County on the evening of 15 May 2003. Ground-based, mobile, Doppler radar data may be used as an important tool to help to confirm (or deny) tornado damage reports in situations in which a damage survey cannot be completed or in which the survey does not provide clear evidence as to what phenomenon caused the damage.
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- Publisher page n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7z320pk ↗
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- data.ucar.edu /dataset/an-example-of-the-use-of-mobile-doppler-radar-data-for… ↗
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Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=22b3b79f-4f3a-4a80-90ed-fcf703e18… ↗
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Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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| National Center for Atmospheric Research | 22b3b79f-4f3a-4a80-90ed-fcf703e18431 | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
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