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How Do We Know: Tracking Tornadoes

Published: Apr 18th, 2011

How Do We Know: Tracking Tornadoes

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How do we know when a tornado is forming? Dr. Heidi Cullen talks to NOAA scientist Harold Brooks who explains how Doppler radars are used to track storm formation.

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Harold Brooks - Dr. Harold Brooks is a research meteorologist and Head of the Mesoscale Applications Group at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma.

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