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A weather map consisting of a station model plot of Oklahoma Mesonet data overlaid with WSR-88D weather radar data depicting possible horizontal convective rolls as a potential contributing factor in the incipient 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak [1] A mobile mesonet also documented tornadic supercells and their immediate environments during this event.
The TWISTEX crew and the vehicles on equipped with mobile mesonets. TWISTEX (a backronym for Tactical Weather-Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment) was a tornado research experiment that was founded and led by Tim Samaras of Bennett, Colorado, US, that ended in the deaths of three researchers in the 2013 El Reno tornado.
MesoWest. MesoWest is a cooperative project to observe and archive mesoscale weather observations across the United States. Their observations include but are not limited to temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation. Their data is also known to be central for climate records, such as for monitoring microclimates.
DOW 7 on display at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in 2010. Doppler on Wheels (or DOW) is a fleet of X-band and C-band mobile and quickly-deployable truck-borne radars which are the core instrumentation of the Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets [ 1] affiliated with the University of Illinois [ 2] and led by Joshua Wurman, with the ...
All ingredients are coming together for northeast Kansas to see a high-impact severe weather event between 4 and 11 p.m. Monday, a meteorologist said.
The 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado was a large, long-lived and exceptionally powerful F5 tornado in which the highest wind speeds ever measured globally was recorded at 321 miles per hour (517 km/h) by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar. Considered the strongest tornado ever recorded to have affected the metropolitan area, the tornado ...
July 29, 2024 at 4:02 AM. A second Maryland Mesonet weather monitoring station has been installed in Clear Spring, the Washington County Office of Emergency Management announced recently. The ...
Map of regions covered by the 122 Weather Forecast Offices. The National Weather Service operates 122 weather forecast offices. [1] [2] Each weather forecast office (WFO or NWSFO) has a geographic area of responsibility, also known as a county warning area, for issuing local public, marine, aviation, fire, and hydrology forecasts.