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AB - 876 Vol. 66, No. 7, July 1985 Doppler velocity displays with overlaid lightning-strike lo- Th e Doppler radar at the NSSL displays velocity activity cations also will be transmitted to the forecast office over a withi n thunderstorms on its screen. One activity associated special communications link. wit h damaging storms is a strong, rotating updraft withi n the cloud, which often precedes the development of a tornado and Weather researcher Rodger A. Brown of the NSSL said the sometime s can be seen on the radar screen before th e tornado operational experiment has important applications nation- drops out of the cloud and touches earth to begin its rampage. wide. The NWS, he explained, is planning replacement of its NSSL scientists also operate a lightning location network current aging radar system with Doppler radars. whic h displays cloud-to-ground lightning strikes as the y occur. Th e frequency and intensity of these lightning strikes can be Ken Crawford, Oklahom a NWS area manager, said tha t Dop- importan t measures of the damage a thunderstorm does. pler data made available to the Oklahoma City forecast office When severe storms threaten the area, the radar and light- last year enabled 
TI - special news features
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
DO - 10.1175/1520-0477-66.7.876
DA - 1985-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-meteorological-society/special-news-features-0eAy3fIlyh
SP - 876
EP - 877
VL - 66
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -