Research Article

Improved Doppler Velocity Dealiasing for Radar Data Assimilation and Storm-Scale Vortex Detection

Figure 5

As in Figure 4 but for the Moore, Oklahoma, tornadic storm scanned by the KTLX radar using VCP12 with 26.1 m s−1 on 0.5° tilt at 20:17:15 UTC on May 20, 2013 (local time 03:17:15 pm on May 20, 2013). The yellow circle in panels (a) and (d) encircles the mesocyclone and its produced EF5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, in the afternoon (local time around 3:30 pm) on May 20, 2013.
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