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A violent severe weather outbreak struck the Southeast on April 4–5, 1977. A total of 22 tornadoes touched down with the strongest ones occurring in Mississippi , Alabama , and Georgia . The strongest was a catastrophic F5 tornado that struck the northern Birmingham, Alabama, suburbs during the afternoon of Monday, April 4.
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 321 mph (517 km/h) recorded during the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado .
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.).
This tornado was rated F2 based on mobile Doppler weather radar data but only produced F1 damage. [7] [8] F3: SE of Gray: Hodgeman, Pawnee: 0146 7 miles (11.2 km) This tornado was rated F3 based on mobile Doppler data but only produced F1 damage. [7] [8] F0: NE of Gray: Hodgeman, Pawnee: 0157 0.1 miles (0.16 km) F1: S of Baldwin City: Douglas ...
The most snow ever reported in southeast Texas was during the Valentine Storm of 1895, which swept southeastern states and dumped 20 inches of snow in Houston, Space City Weather reports, pointing ...
AN/APN-67 Doppler navigational radar set for P6M-1 NC-121 "Project Magnet" and USN helicopters; AN/APN-75 rendezvous radar for B-47; AN/APN-76 rendezvous radar; manufactured by Olympic; used in KC-97 B-47B/E; AN/APN-77 Doppler radar set in SZ-1B, USN helicopters; AN/APN-78 Doppler radar set for helicopters; AN/APN-79 Doppler radar set by ...
KYIV (Reuters) -A Ukrainian drone targeted a long-range radar deep inside Russia on Sunday, the second such strike in a week on infrastructure used by Moscow to monitor Ukraine's military ...
Several destructive tornadoes have hit the state of Oklahoma since 1882, the year with the first recorded tornado within state boundaries. Oklahoma, located in Tornado Alley, experiences around 68 tornadoes annually, with each EF3+ tornado killing an average of 2.9 people. 497 tornadoes have been classified as "intense" in Oklahoma, being rated F3+ on the Fujita Scale [note 1] or EF3+ on the ...