I slightly understand the hook and the old Doppler showing a purple or dark color representing debris, but I’m sure that’s only if the debris field is that high up and a large amount. When looking at radar now with representations of tornadoes, I find it hard to pick out which part of the radar shows it. I’m sure this won’t be a popular question but anyone with knowledge of radar, your expertise would be appreciated.
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The “doppler” means the radar can tell whether the reflection is from something moving towards or away from the radar site, and how fast. If you have fast wind moving towards the radar site right next to fast wind moving away from the radar site, that’s probably a tornado.
For example, if you go to this radar site: https://www.wunderground.com/radar/us/ok/oklahoma-city/tlx
where it says “base reflectivity” you can switch it over to “base radial velocity”.
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