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3-D NEXRAD Joplin Tornado Signature

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Note: Data in this report are compiled from preliminary statistics
Updated May 26, 2011

The movie shows the vertical composite of radar sweeps from the Springfield, Missouri NEXRAD radar site of the Joplin, Missouri tornado Sunday May 22, 2011, giving a 3-dimensional image of the tornado structure. The Google Earth KMZ file used to create this video can be downloaded here.