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Mobile Doppler Radars
- 1996: Doppler on Wheels
(DOW)
- High resolution due
to large dish and 3 cm λ.
- First deployed in
VORTEX program in 1995.
- Observed several tornadoes in 1st year, including the
Dimmitt tornado.
[Image shows a 3-cm Doppler radar mounted on the back of
a flat-bed truck, its antenna pointed at a tornado in the distance.]