Fig. 1: DOWs observe tornado wind speeds. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 1: DOWs observe tornado wind speeds.

From: The strongest winds in tornadoes are very near the ground

Fig. 1

A DOW observing a tornado. B Map of locations of DOW-observed tornadoes 1995-2006. C Example of DOW Vd fields observed at three levels in a tornado. Blue/red = in/outbound. Note that the peak wind speed observed at each level is not necessarily immediately above the peak observed in the next lower level.

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