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The recent availability of doppler radar for observations of convective storms has produced convincing documentation of the importance of rotating storms and their close association with severe weather. Although not all severe thunderstorms rotate, an operational evaluation study conducted at NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory showed that most of the storms containing meso-cyclones identifiable by doppler radar produced either tornadoes or large hail within an hour.
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Lilly, D.K. (1982). The Development and Maintenance of Rotation in Convective Storms. In: Bengtsson, L., Lighthill, J. (eds) Intense Atmospheric Vortices. Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81866-0_12
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