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We hope you are as impressed with nature's display of power represented in
this storm as we were looking at it through our Doppler radar imagery.
Here's our MAY WINNER that occurred in Sharkey County in the afternoon of the 28th.
The environment of the day consisted of Capes to 3600 j/kg, Storm Relative
Helicities 200-250(m/s)(m/s), and an EHI of 4-5! Fortunately, the storms moved
east generally at 25kts as a southeastward motion would have been much more
serious. The storm not only was massive in height but also developed a
moderate Mesocyclone after 200 pm when VILs peaked at 74kg/m*m and the 50dBz
core reached nearly 50,000 feet.
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Reflectivity Vertical Cross Section View
Scales:
<-Reflectivity
(dBz)
<<-{Note: Incredible
elevation of 50dBz returns
of the storm farthest left.)
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A 4-Panel View of...VILS(u.left), High Layer Reflectivity(u.right)
, 1.5Deg Storm Relative Velocity(l.left) & 0.5Deg Storm Relative Velocity(l.right)
Storm Relative
Velocity->
(green-toward radar;red away
from radar)
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