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English: A NEXRAD radar loop of the Rolling Fork EF4 tornado on March 24, 2023. The tornado peaked in intensity while striking Rolling Fork, with winds estimated at 195 miles per hour (314 km/h). Thumbs are:
  1. the Reflectivity showing a Hook echo (upper left),
  2. a gate to gate velocity couplet (upper right),
  3. the Correlation Coefficient (lower left),
  4. the Polarimetric Tornado Debris Signature (PTDS) algorithm output (lower right).
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Source NEXRAD KDGX accessed via GR2Analyst
Author National Weather Service

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This image is in the public domain because it is from one or more of the U.S. government’s 159 NEXRAD radars, which are jointly owned and operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United States Department of Commerce, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) within the Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Air Force within the Department of Defense.
Thus all NEXRAD images are public domain.

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A NEXRAD radar loop of the Rolling Fork EF4 tornado on March 24, 2023

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current17:44, 2 April 2023Thumbnail for version as of 17:44, 2 April 20231,127 × 626 (6.37 MB)WeatherWriterOnly the EF4 tornado here
17:10, 2 April 2023Thumbnail for version as of 17:10, 2 April 20231,127 × 626 (9.65 MB)WeatherWriterUploaded a work by National Weather Service from NEXRAD accessed via GR2Analyst with UploadWizard

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