Aspects of a tornadic left-moving thunderstorm of 25 May 1999

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 614-626

  Dostalek, John F ^a   Weaver, John F ^a   Phillips, G Loren ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NOAA National Weather Service Houston Galveston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOODS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITES;

FLASH FLOODING; VELOCITY IMAGERIES;

THUNDERSTORMS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVERE WEATHER; THUNDERSTORM; TORNADO;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3142749833     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0614:AOATLT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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