How to Use Doppler radar in a Sentence

Doppler radar

noun
  • Doppler radar has indicated weak rotation with this storm.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2026
  • In spite of Doppler radar, a similar outbreak today could leave scores, even hundreds dead.
    — Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
  • The Doppler radar that serves north Alabama is going to be out of commission for a while.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 23 Aug. 2022
  • One of the most critical tools to forecast severe weather in-the-moment is Doppler radar.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • There are so many that the Doppler radar in Sterling, Virginia, could actually be picking them up.
    — Mina Kaji, ABC News, 9 June 2021
  • The company hopes the roaches will one day be deployed to war zones carrying cameras, microphones and Doppler radar.
    — Bill Whitaker, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • His excitement grew when Doppler radar detected meteorites descending from the sky.
    — Gillian Graham, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Neither Doppler radar nor pesky statistics seem to dent interest in Phil's weather predictions.
    — Bill Chappell, NPR, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Sickness, like bad weather before Doppler radar, was unpredictable, unavoidable, and something to be endured.
    — Dr. Sharon Malone, TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
  • After two years of trying, Dave Dimon had finally talked the station into getting Doppler radar.
    — Tony Earley, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • The researchers will chase hailstorms the way some do tornadoes and try to deploy mobile Doppler radars and other instruments to capture the storms’ inner physics.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain passed through the affected areas.
    — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Meteorologists currently pick up on tornadoes by using Doppler radar, which measures the rain, hail and winds within a storm.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • The smaller suction vortices, as they’re sometimes called, have been documented by mobile Doppler radar packing winds of more than 300 mph.
    — Dennis Mersereau, WIRED, 22 July 2024
  • Detecting tornadoes with instruments like Doppler radars requires looking for subtle cues and still needs verification from storm spotters on the ground.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 June 2024
  • Technology like Doppler radar allows meteorologists to detect small, weak tornadoes that would've gone unreported in the past.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 29 July 2024
  • That requires more Doppler radars, more monitoring stations, more weather balloons, more computer networks to collect, synthesize, and share this information.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 June 2024
  • The percentage of tornadoes that trigger a warning has increased over recent decades, due to Doppler radar, improved modeling and better understanding of the storm environment.
    — CBS News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Houser said in an email that any wind speed estimates differing from the NWS' surveys would presumably come from Doppler radar, which researchers sometimes use to study tornadoes.
    — Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Also a nod to its past, The Weather Room eatery on the 67th floor, taking its name from a Doppler radar that used to sit on the 70th floor from where the forecasts were determined.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Also, Doppler radar may have detected wind circulations that often lead to tornadoes and prompted a tornado warning, even if no tornado materialized.
    — Joe Taschler, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2022
  • By midday, Doppler radar showed moderate to heavy rain falling over much of the region, with 1 to 3 additional inches forecast into the evening, especially in the Sierra foothills.
    — Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Another concern regards forecasting equipment, such as the nation’s Doppler radar system, which is the only tool that forecasters can use to spot tornadoes inside storms systems, allowing for better warnings.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 13 May 2025
  • However, in full disclosure, there is some expert speculation in social media and compelling Doppler radar imagery that suggests supercell characteristics may have been present with the one of the tornadoes.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Before the existence of Doppler radar, weather satellites, or for that matter, meteorologists, America was an agrarian society, and almost everyone grew their own food and needed advice on maintaining their crops.
    — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 11 Nov. 2020

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