danielwAdministrator
(Moderator)
Sat Aug 06 2011 02:41 PM
Re: Emily Falls Apart

Like Mike said...

The estimated top and bottom of the radar beam can be estimated using the link below.
At 120nm the bottom of the beam is roughly 10,000 feet or about the 650mb level. And the top is roughly 22,740 feet or near the 400mb level.

http://www.wdtb.noaa.gov/tools/misc/beamwidth/beamwidth.html


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