When skies darken or thunderstorms are forecast, look and listen for...

• Increasing Wind
• Flashes of lightning
• Sound of thunder
• Static on your AM radio

Advanced Weather Radar Sees "Inside" the Storm

Dopplar Radars, which have been strategically deployed around the country, are capable of seeing "inside" a thunderstorm to detect hazardous weather conditions. Radars can look at a vertical cross section of a storm...wind velocities in a storm... and the base reflectivities...as well as other signatures, like the storm pictures above.

The storm in the pictures above occurred in Attala County on the evening of the May 14th, 1997. This Severe Thunderstorm produced golfball size hail and a F1 Tornado damaging a school in McAdams as it moved southeast at about 30 miles an hour.