Finding Tornadoes with Doppler Weather Radar
How to find rotation indicating a possible tornado using publicly available NWS Doppler weather radar velocity data. Radar imagery from KCCX, a United States NEXRAD (WSR-88D) S-band Doppler weather radar station in State College, Pennsylvania.
Imagery of a storm that rolled through Central Pennsylvania the evening of June 16, 2022, with clearest indication of rotation/funnel cloud near Mifflintown/Port Royal/Tuscarora, PA at 8:20 p.m. #Shorts
App: MyRadar with Per-station radar upgrade (Available on App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store)
Map Imagery from OpenStreetMap
NEXRAD Radar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXRAD
-RESOURCES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE-
How Radar Works: https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/how
Interpreting Reflectivity: https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/refl
Interpreting Velocity: https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/vel
Tornado Image in Thumbnail (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...) is from a 2007 photo taken near the town of Elie in Manitoba, Canada. Photo taken by Wikipedia user Justin Hobson, "Justin1569". Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.