Visual characteristics of severe storms

23rd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms, SLS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Magsig, Michael A ^a,c   LaDue, James ^a   Yuan, May ^b  

^a NOAA/NWS/Warning Decision Training Branch   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c WDTB   (United States)

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