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The transition to polarimetric (dual-polarised) radars began in 2017 with the upgrade of 4 Meteor 1500 radars located in Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Sydney. [7] The network has further been enhanced through the installation of 8 new polarimetric Meteor 735 radars across WA, [8] NSW [9] & Victoria, [10] and two polarimetric WRM200 radars [11] manufactured by Vaisala, one to replace the ...
The Bureau of Meteorology noted that "Kalgoorlie Doppler Radar image at 0725 UTC (1525 AWST) showed a pixel which had an inbound velocity of around 110 km/h at a height of ~487 metres above the ground (aliased: 22.5 m/s outbound)" in the tornado record for this event. [181] F0 Kurnell Tornado: 16 December 2015: New South Wales: 1: 3 injuries
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas. It was established in 1906 under the Meteorology Act, and brought together the state meteorological services that existed before then. [ 3 ]
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This multi-vortex EF2 tornado, which prompted a tornado emergency for Custer County, Oklahoma, [54] was accompanied by significant rear flank downdraft winds exceeding 100 mph (160 km/h), with the total path width being 2.7 miles (4.3 km) wide. A Ka-POL doppler radar, operated by Texas Tech University, recorded a wind speed of 87.9 m/s (197 mph ...
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.).
The storms developed from a low pressure system to the west of Victoria, generating thunderstorms during the morning of 6 March, [8] which began travelling across the state roughly from northwest to southeast, passing directly through central Melbourne at around 2:40 pm. Multiple storm cells existed, one in Western Victoria and another in Central Victoria and Melbourne, other mostly rain ...
The 2005 Melbourne thunderstorm was a severe weather event that occurred between 2 February and 3 February 2005, [1] which produced 120 millimetres (4.7 in) of rain in Melbourne, the highest total since records began. Every suburb in Melbourne, as well as parts of eastern Victoria and the Geelong/Bellarine Peninsula, were affected by the storm. [2]