WSR-88D radar depiction of supercell-bow echo interaction: Unexpected evolution of a large, tornadic, "comma-shaped" supercell over eastern Oklahoma

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 492-504

  Wolf, Peter L ^a,b  

^a National Weather Service   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RADAR; RADAR IMAGERY; THUNDERSTORM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032469599     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(1998)013<0492:WRDOSB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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