For those who know their severe storm stuff, here's a couple animated GIF's I slapped together from Weather Underground. Both cycle up through elevations, 0.50, 1.45, 2.40, 3.35. The first clearly show two bounded weak echo regions, which is where the updrafts are sucking dry surface air up into the storm, and also faintly the spiral bands of precipitation that surround the rotating cores.
The second is storm relative velocity.
Next is the vertical integrated liquid, it shows the estimated mass of the liquid water in the air column in kilograms per square meter.
And finally the echo top map, shows the highest altitude reflection the radar is seeing.
The second is storm relative velocity.
Next is the vertical integrated liquid, it shows the estimated mass of the liquid water in the air column in kilograms per square meter.
And finally the echo top map, shows the highest altitude reflection the radar is seeing.
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