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Archive: Sat May 2008

Classic enhanced-V and anvil plume signatures

The severe thunderstorm that was producing a significant long-track tornado (approximately 75 miles long, and around 1 mile wide at times) across parts of northeastern Oklahoma and southwestern Missouri on 10 May 2008 exhibited a classic “enhanced-v” signature on both GOES-12 and NOAA-16 IR imagery. The coldest cloud top brightness temperature values... Read More