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Radar Limitations

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• Radar Limitations
  
• How Do Radar Limitations Impact Warning Decisions?
  
• Limitations Have Not Changed
  
• Our Understanding of the Impacts of Those Limitations Has Changed
  
• Overview
  
• Overview Continued
  
• Uncertainties in WSR-88D Measurements and Their Impacts On Monitoring Thunderstorm Life Cycles
  
• Uncertainties of Height of Target in VCP21
  
• Uncertainties of Height of Target in VCP11
  
• Cell Top vs Radar Observed Top at 100 KM, V=0, VCP21
  
• Cell Top vs Radar Observed Top at 100 km, V=5 m/s, VCP21
  
• Cell Top vs Radar Observed Top at 25 km, V=5 m/s, VCP11
  
• Effects of Radar Sampling on
  
• Effects of Angular Separation from Mesocyclone Center
  
• Rankine Combined Vortex
  
• Relationship of Data Points to Mesocyclone
  
• Effects of Angular Separation from Tornado Center
  
• Relationship of Data Points to Tornado
  
• Variations of Meso and TVS Rotational Velocities as a Function of Range
  
• Descending and Non-descending Tornadic Vortex Signatures Detected by WSR-88Ds
  
• TVS Identification
  
• Descending TVS
  
• Non-Descending TVS
  
• Findings
  
• Hall/White County Tutorial
  
• Velocity Explorer
  
• Tornado Detection Algorithm
  
• Tornado Warning Guidance

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