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A weather map consisting of a station model plot of Oklahoma Mesonet data overlaid with WSR-88D weather radar data depicting possible horizontal convective rolls as a potential contributing factor in the incipient 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak [1] A mobile mesonet also documented tornadic supercells and their immediate environments during this event.
The Oklahoma Mesonet is a network of environmental monitoring stations designed to measure the environment at the size and duration of mesoscale weather events. The phrase "mesonet" is a portmanteau of the words mesoscale and network . The network consists of 120 automated stations covering Oklahoma and each of Oklahoma's counties has at least ...
In 1962 a research team from the United States Weather Bureau's National Severe Storms Project (NSSP) moved from Kansas City, Missouri to Norman, Oklahoma, where, in 1956, the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory had installed a 3 cm continuous-wave Doppler Weather Surveillance Radar-1957 . This radar was designed to detect very high wind speeds in ...
DOW 7 on display at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in 2010. Doppler on Wheels (or DOW) is a fleet of X-band and C-band mobile and quickly-deployable truck-borne radars which are the core instrumentation of the Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets [ 1] affiliated with the University of Illinois [ 2] and led by Joshua Wurman, with the ...
Severe weather risk continues in Oklahoma Saturday evening as major tornado threat fizzles. Gannett. Dale Denwalt, The Oklahoman. May 25, 2024 at 9:20 PM. Although a line of severe storms formed ...
The National Weather Center expects severe weather to hit Oklahoma this weekend with a potential of strong tornadoes in parts of western Oklahoma and the state's panhandle.
Bruce Thoren, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Norman, said there were 22 tornadoes Saturday in the weather service's forecast area. KFOR-4 shared a map of 17 tornadoes that ...
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.).