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A PX-1000 transportable radar unit operated by University of Oklahoma's Advanced Radar Research Center was used to observe the path of the tornado through Moore, with researchers detailing a "loop" in the path near the Moore Medical Center as a "failed occlusion". [37] EF3 May 28, 2013: Bennington, Kansas — — 264 mph (425 km/h)
Get the Oklahoma City, OK local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... The maps from FOX Weather show the current radar and conditions across the nation as a record number of ...
The Rapid X-band Polarimetric Radar, commonly abbreviated as RaXPol, [1] is a mobile research radar designed and operated by the University of Oklahoma, led by Howard Bluestein. RaXPol often collaborates with adjacent mobile radar projects, such as Doppler on Wheels and SMART-R . [ 2 ]
Animated radar loop (left, storm-relative velocity; right, reflectivity) of the nearly stationary supercell thunderstorm that spawned the EF3 tornado from 5:36–7:33 p.m. CDT (2236–0033 UTC). A large, very slow-moving, and erratic tornado remained on the ground for just over an hour as it executed a cyclonic loop in Ottawa County south of ...
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 159 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars 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 ...
The University of Oklahoma's RaXPol mobile Doppler weather radar, positioned at a nearby overpass, measured winds preliminarily analyzed as in excess of 296 mph (476 km/h). These winds are considered the second-highest ever measured worldwide, just shy of the 302 ± 22 mph (486 ± 35 km/h) recorded during the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado .
Just before 8 p.m. CDT, the National Weather Service (NWS) wrote on Twitter that a "significant tornado" was ongoing northeast of Cole, which is located about 30 miles south of Oklahoma City.
Weather radar in Norman, Oklahoma with rainshaft Weather (WF44) radar dish University of Oklahoma OU-PRIME C-band, polarimetric, weather radar during construction. Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.).