A hook echo is a pendant or hook-shaped weather radar signature as part of some supercell thunderstorms. It is found in the lower portions of a storm as...

flank downdraft often shows up brightly as a hook on weather radar images, producing the characteristic hook echo, which often indicates the presence of a...

around the north and northwest side of the updraft base, producing a "hook echo" that indicates the presence of a mesocyclone. This "dome" feature appears...

serial derecho has developed or is likely to develop soon, much as a hook echo indicates the same for a tornado. A LEWP, according to the NWS, is defined...

radar by recognizing patterns in velocity and reflectivity data, such as hook echoes or debris balls, as well as through the efforts of storm spotters. There...

detected a hook echo in association with the parent supercell. This was one of the first times that radar linked tornadogenesis with hook-echo signatures...

watches and convective outlooks in 1952. In 1953 it was confirmed that hook echoes are associated with tornadoes. By recognizing these radar signatures...

tornado debris signature one mile in diameter within the accompanying hook echo, as the tornado crossed into portions of south Oklahoma City in northern...

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descent of DRCs has been associated with the formation and evolution of hook echoes, a key radar signature of supercells, suggesting a complex interplay...

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associated with a parent supercell. Several minutes later, a bounded weak echo region (BWER) was present on radar, located on the supercell's northern flank...

typical debris ball shown as an area of high reflectivity on the end of the hook echo of the parent supercell of the 2011 Joplin tornado co-located with a velocity...

(4.8 km) east of the city limits. This, along with the detection of a hook echo on radar, prompted the Lubbock Weather Bureau office to issue a tornado...

A radar image of the supercell that produced the tornado shows both a distinctive "hook echo" (left) and an impressive velocity signature (right)....

tornado, broadcasting the radar image of the supercell with a pronounced hook echo on the rear flank of the storm several minutes before it struck. The storm...

off its foundation in Smithville, radar image showing the supercell and hook echo of the storm that produced the Smithville tornado, with a debris ball...

technology being less developed than now, the storm had a well defined hook echo on radar imagery, a signature often correlated with tornadic supercells...

near Barnsdall, where it produced EF4-rated damage to homes. Bottom: The hook echo of the tornado seen on NEXRAD radar as it moved through Barnsdall and...

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the newer mesocyclone coalesced, and the radar detection of a bounded weak echo region within the storm indicated that its updraft intensified during this...

doppler weather radar. By the time all of the instruments were set up, the hook echo of the supercell was located 21 miles (34 km) to the southwest. The Doppler...

advances in understanding the link between tornadoes and radar-detected hook echoes. It also generated support for improved civil defense systems, the formation...

tornadoes. It was with those data he confirmed in a 1981 article that the hook echo is an excellent clue on a weather radar for the development of tornadoes...

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shortly after touching down as seen on WSR-88D reflectivity and velocity, exhibiting a hook echo, tornado vortex signature, and tornado debris signature...

form in the front flank of squall lines), and may be distinguished by a hook echo rotation signature on a weather radar map. Visual cues such as a rotating...

moved into southeastern Parker County, it exhibited a hook echo and a pronounced bounded weak echo region on weather radar imagery. Hail began to fall from...

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