Storms on the radar
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HookEcho's archive goes back to 1991, which means every one of these is still there to replay volume by volume. Each page opens the app on the right radar, at the right minute, on the product that makes the storm legible.
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Rolling Fork, 2023
The 24 March 2023 EF4 that destroyed Rolling Fork, Mississippi, from KDGX — a long-track nighttime tornado with a violent debris signature.
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Hurricane Ian, 2022
The 28 September 2022 landfall on southwest Florida from KTBW: an eyewall crossing the coast, and the tornadoes in the outer bands.
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Mayfield and the quad-state, 2021
The 10 December 2021 nighttime tornado that ran through western Kentucky, from KPAH — a long-track winter supercell with a textbook debris signature.
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The Midwest derecho, 2020
10 August 2020 from KDVN: a 770-mile windstorm with 140 mph gusts that crossed Iowa in a morning and cost more than any thunderstorm event in US history.
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Hurricane Harvey, 2017
The rainfall that flooded Houston in August 2017, from KHGX — four days of training bands over one city.
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El Reno, 2013
The widest tornado ever measured — 2.6 miles across on 31 May 2013 — from KTLX, with the storm-relative velocity that hid how fast it was growing.
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Moore, 2013
The 20 May 2013 Moore EF5 from KTLX — a violent tornado 20 miles from the radar, sampled about as well as a WSR-88D can sample one.
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Joplin, 2011
The Joplin EF5 of 22 May 2011, the deadliest US tornado since 1947 — replayed from KSGF's archived volumes, with the debris ball that told forecasters what was on the ground.
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Tuscaloosa–Birmingham, 2011
27 April 2011 from KBMX: the single worst day of the modern tornado record, with a long-track EF4 crossing two cities inside an hour.
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Greensburg, 2007
The 4 May 2007 Greensburg EF5 from KDDC — the first tornado rated on the Enhanced Fujita scale, and a town that lost 95 percent of its buildings.
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Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Katrina's landfall on 29 August 2005 from KLIX, the New Orleans radar — an eyewall passing over the site that was watching it.
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Bridge Creek–Moore, 1999
The 3 May 1999 F5 that produced the fastest wind ever measured on Earth, from KTLX, thirty miles from the radar.