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Science 16 September 1960:
Vol. 132. no. 3429, pp. 736 - 737
DOI: 10.1126/science.132.3429.736
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Spiral Cloud Band Associated with a Tornado

Alexander Sadowski 1

1 Forecasts and Synoptic Reports Division, U.S. Weather Bureau, Washington, D.C.

The radarscope photographic sequence, by far the best example on record, reveals a spirally banded structure about 10 miles in diameter which is similar to spiral bands of hurricanes ranging as far as 250 miles and to the banded cloud structure of well-developed storms of 1000 miles as photographed by Tiros I.

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