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Exploring The Atmosphere
Radar & Other Electronic Methods
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A non-tornadic spiral shaped radar echo is apparent in the lower left quadrantof the scope image. Observed on AFB CPS-9 PPI scope. The spiral echo is about90 miles southwest of radar location. The set was on long pulse (5 microsecond)and the anten
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Photo # 1 Meriden, Kansas, tornado as seen on Topeka Weather Bureau WSR-3 radar.Topeka Weather Bureau WSR-3 radar. Theclassic hook patterns as seen on radar were indicative of a tornado. However,absence of a hook did not preclude presence of a torna
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Photo # 2 Meriden, Kansas, tornado as seen on Topeka Weather Bureau WSR-3 radar.This tornado passed to the north of the Topeka Weather Bureau radarinstallation. The tornado destroyed Meriden.Monthly Weather Review, June 1962, p. 237.
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A view of the hook echo associated with the Meriden, Kansas, tornado.Observed by the Topeka Weather Bureau WSR-3 radar.Monthly Weather Review, June 1962, p. 236.
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A view of the hook echo associated with the Meriden, Kansas, tornado.Observed by the Topeka Weather Bureau WSR-3 radar.Monthly Weather Review, June 1962, p. 236.
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A view of the hook echo associated with the Meriden, Kansas, tornado.Observed by the Topeka Weather Bureau WSR-3 radar.Monthly Weather Review, June 1962, p. 237.
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Hurricane Carla as seen by WSR-57 radar at Galveston, Texas. Arrow designateslocation of tornado which occurred near Kaplan, Louisiana.Monthly Weather Review, December 1962, p. 515.
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The Weather Bureau's first experimental Doppler Radar unit. This radar was a3-cm continuous wave Doppler unit obtained from the Navy and modified formeteorological purposes.
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Photograph of the off-set PPI radar scope at Orlando, Florida. This was thethird time that a hurricane had passed sufficiently close to a radar site tohave its structure revealed. In: Weatherwise, Volume 1, No. 4, August 1948,p. 79.
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Photograph of the radar scope at Orlando, Florida. Squall line in advance ofhurricane that was centered 230 miles southeast of Orlando.In: Weatherwise, Volume 1, No. 4, August 1948, p. 79.
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Classic appearing tornado hook echo on bottom of thunderstorm in lower leftquadrant of scope. Apparently a storm in eastern Colorado or southwest Nebraskaas Storm Data shows tornadoes only in that area on given date.
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Squally weather passing by the Wichita radar installation. Extending from justsouth of Topeka to Oklahoma City. No violent weather reported with this squallline.
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Structure of a typhoon captured by a Navy ship's radar. This storm was thesecond tropical storm to ever be observed on radar. In: Hurricane Detection by Radar and Other Means, Vaughn D. Rockney, Tropical Cyclone Symposium, Brisbane, December 1956.
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Exterior view of radio set SCR-584, a mobile radar unit.In: AAF Manual 105-101-2 Radar Storm Detection, by Headquarters, Army AirForces, August 1945. Library Call Number M15:621.384 U58r.
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Operating console of Radio Set SCR-584, a mobile radar unit.In: AAF Manual 105-101-2 Radar Storm Detection, by Headquarters, Army AirForces, August 1945. Library Call Number M15:621.384 U58r.
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Artist's conception of radar beam pattern of Radio Set SCR-584, a mobile radarunit.In: AAF Manual 105-101-2 Radar Storm Detection, by Headquarters, Army AirForces, August 1945. Library Call Number M15:621.384 U58r.
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Echoes from frontal thunderstorms observed from a Radio Set SCR-584 mobileradar unit located at Spring Lake, New Jersey.In: AAF Manual 105-101-2 Radar Storm Detection, by Headquarters, Army AirForces, August 1945. Library Call Number M15:621.384 U5
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Forest fire occurring at location of triangle west of Barnegat City. The largeecho to the east of Barnegat City was a large cumulonimbus cloud.In: AAF Manual 105-101-2 Radar Storm Detection, by Headquarters, Army AirForces, August 1945. Library C
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Violent thunderstorm activity and heavy rain to the southwest of Spring Lakepreceded a frontal passageIn: AAF Manual 105-101-2 Radar Storm Detection, by Headquarters, Army AirForces, August 1945. Library Call Number M15:621.384 U58r.
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An artist's rendition of an MEW (Microwave Early Warning system) and HeightFinder. The MEW antenna assembly is in the foreground while a British Type 13Height Finder is in the background.In: AAF Manual 105-101-2 Radar Storm Detection, by Headquart
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