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• Bow echo — A bow echo is a term describing the characteristic radar return from a mesoscale convective system that is shaped like an archer’s bow. These systems can produce severe straight line winds and occasionally tornadoes, causing major damage.… …   Wikipedia

• Bow Echo — Das Bogenecho ist ein bogenförmiges Echo im Radarbild, das meist aus einer Multizellenlinie besteht, seltener auch aus einer Superzelle heraus entstanden ist. Im Zusammenhang mit den Bogenechos werden meist schwere Böen auf der Rückseite der… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Echo class submarine — The Soviet Echo I class (project 659 class) were completed at Komsomolsk in the Soviet far east in 1960 to 1962. The Echo I class were classed as SSGNs armed with six launchers for the P5 (SS N 3C Shaddock B) cruise missile. The Echo I class had… …   Wikipedia

• Hook echo — [ 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. It reached F5 strength on the Fujita scale.] [ Kansas City, Missouri.] The hook echo is one of the classical hallmarks of tornado producing supercell thunderstorms as seen on weather radar. The echo is produced… …   Wikipedia

• Twinkle Echo — Infobox Album | Name = Twinkle Echo Type = Album Artist = Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Released = September 9, 2003 Recorded = 2001 2003 Genre = Lo fi Indie Electronic Length = 29:54 Label = Tomlab TOM31 Producer = Reviews = *Allmusic… …   Wikipedia

• HMS Echo (H87) — is the first of two multi role hydrographic survey ships commissioned by the Royal Navy. With her sister ship, HMS Enterprise (H88), they form the Echo class of survey vessels. She was built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Devon in 2002. [http://www …   Wikipedia

• Grain En Arc — Un grain en arc est un type de ligne orageuse, ou ligne de grain, ayant la forme caractéristique d un arc de cercle tel que vu par un radar météorologique. Le Dr. Tetsuya Théodore Fujita de l université de Chicago est le premier à utiliser le… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Grain en arc — Un grain en arc est un type de ligne orageuse, ou ligne de grain, ayant la forme caractéristique d un arc de cercle tel que vu par un radar météorologique. Le Dr. Tetsuya Théodore Fujita de l université de Chicago est le premier à utiliser le… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Derecho — A shelf cloud along the leading edge of a derecho photographed in Minnesota A derecho (from Spanish: derecho meaning straight ) is a widespread and long lived, violent convectively induced straight line windstorm that is associated with a fast… …   Wikipedia

• Mesoscale convective system — A shelf cloud such as this one can be a sign that a squall is imminent A mesoscale convective system (MCS) is a complex of thunderstorms that becomes organized on a scale larger than the individual thunderstorms but smaller than extratropical… …   Wikipedia