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    Doppler on Wheels (or DOW) is a fleet of X-band and C-band mobile and quickly-deployable truck-borne radars which are the core instrumentation of the...
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    alley in the Great Plains to the eastern U.S. is indeed real". On April 26, a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) mobile radar truck measured 1-second wind speeds of approximately...
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    (497–512 km/h) were measured in a sub-vortex of the tornado by a DOW (Doppler on Wheels), placing it among the strongest tornadoes ever measured. This tornado...
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    the first Doppler on Wheels was constructed and was deployed for the first time at the end of the VORTEX1 Project. The Doppler on Wheels led to several...
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    The EF4 Jiangsu tornado on June 23, 2016, also had a peak width of 4.1 km wide (2.5 miles). On May 3, 1999, a Doppler On Wheels (DOW) mobile radar observed...
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    from Harlan, IA tornado on Friday (26 April 2024)" (Post on 𝕏). 𝕏 (Formerly Twitter). University of Illinois: Doppler on Wheels. 28 April 2024. Retrieved...
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    Wurman, Joshua (2008-08-29). "Doppler on Wheels". Center for Severe Weather Research. Archived from the original on 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2009-12-13...
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    measured globally was recorded at 321 miles per hour (517 km/h) by a Doppler on Wheels (DOW) radar. Considered the strongest tornado ever recorded to have...
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    2013 El Reno tornado (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Reed Timmer, were either injured or had their vehicles damaged. A Doppler on Wheels-based analysis of how the tornado impacted these teams revealed that...
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    [1] (CSWR) in 1998. Wurman returned to Boulder in 2001. He and the Doppler On Wheels (DOW) facility, updated as the Flexible Array of Radars and Mesonets...
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