Oswego County Hailer, Detection, And Interesting Features

The following 4-panel at 2249Z from KTYX shows a nice indication of large hail over Oswego County, NY.  The reflectivity is from 8.0 degrees, with MESH upper right, HSDA lower right, and Dual Pol Correlation Coefficient. (see image below). OswegoHailThe hybrid HSDA was still underestimating this storm, but the 8.0 deg Z, MESH, and CC all show the potential for large hail.

About 20 minutes later, our HWT class leader Greg Stumpf took this four panel off of HSDA on FSI.  Note: Not only the TBSS is very evident, but you can actually see a horizontal sidelobe indicative of power loss and beam spreading occurring higher up in the atmosphere.  Pretty cool stuff!fsi_hsda

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