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[STORMREPORTS] 3-D Movies, Images of "Super Outbreak" Last Week

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 20:57:45 EDT

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=10642
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=10650
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=10643

"The Sunday, May 4 super outbreak of severe weather across the southern
Plains produced 84 tornadoes, 89 reports of damaging winds (downbursts) and
275 large hail reports. The Tropical Rainfall Measurment Mission (TRMM)
satellite overflew the severe weather area during the height of activity.
This image shows a vertical cross section through a severe multicell
hailstorm over western Oklahoma. While appearing as a single cloud in the
GOES visible channel (white regions in the image background), the TRMM
precipitation radar has identified three distinct precipitation cores,
which have been greatly exaggerated in the vertical to show detail. Two of
the more intense cells are shown here. The colors correpsond to
precipitation intensity. Light rain and snow (in the colder upper reaches
of the cloud) are shown in blue, and the most intense rain cores are shown
in red and dark maroon. The thin black lines trace contours of constant
rain intensity. Like the layers of an onion, TRMM reveals that the most
intense rains are contained in the lower region of the righthand cell,
which towers to 16 km in height. In fact, the intensity of the
precipitation is such that hail is likely mixed in with the rain near the
surface." 

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