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What did meteorologists use to figure out that the Joplin tornado was coming?
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∙ 8y ago
The main tool they uses was Doppler Radar. With that radar the meteorologists were able to detect rotation in the approaching thunderstorm and knew that it had the potential to produce a tornado 17 minutes before the tornado itself even formed. This was rather fortunate, as the tornado itself touched down only two minutes before it entered Joplin.
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