How to Use Doppler radar in a Sentence

Doppler radar

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• Those winds were detected by the Doppler radar in Sterling, Va.) and shown by the patch of orange colors along the leading edge of the bow.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 23 June 2022
• The Doppler radar that serves north Alabama is going to be out of commission for a while.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 23 Aug. 2022
• In spite of Doppler radar, a similar outbreak today could leave scores, even hundreds dead.
  — Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• There are so many that the Doppler radar in Sterling, Virginia, could actually be picking them up.
  — Mina Kaji, ABC News, 9 June 2021
• The weather service said Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to a thunderstorm that occurred over a warned area.
  — Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• Brewing within the storm is a draft with the right rotation, size, depth and duration for Doppler radar to label it as a mesocyclone: the precursor to a tornado.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2021
• After two years of trying, Dave Dimon had finally talked the station into getting Doppler radar.
  — Tony Earley, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• Houser said in an email that any wind speed estimates differing from the NWS' surveys would presumably come from Doppler radar, which researchers sometimes use to study tornadoes.
  — Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2021
• Sickness, like bad weather before Doppler radar, was unpredictable, unavoidable, and something to be endured.
  — Dr. Sharon Malone, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
• His excitement grew when Doppler radar detected meteorites descending from the sky.
  — Gillian Graham, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Meteorologists currently pick up on tornadoes by using Doppler radar, which measures the rain, hail and winds within a storm.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, WSJ, 25 May 2021
• The percentage of tornadoes that trigger a warning has increased over recent decades, due to Doppler radar, improved modeling and better understanding of the storm environment.
  — CBS News, 3 Apr. 2023
• However, in full disclosure, there is some expert speculation in social media and compelling Doppler radar imagery that suggests supercell characteristics may have been present with the one of the tornadoes.
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• Also, Doppler radar may have detected wind circulations that often lead to tornadoes and prompted a tornado warning, even if no tornado materialized.
  — Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2022
• Before the existence of Doppler radar, weather satellites, or for that matter, meteorologists, America was an agrarian society, and almost everyone grew their own food and needed advice on maintaining their crops.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024