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New Technology to help better predict severe weather

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    $50 million taxpayer-funded weather radar upgrades could save lives

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Mark got it back up frightening pictures and eerie sound.

-- have become all too familiar.

Tornadoes shredding everything in their past at this point we had a tornado warning out on March 2.

The National Weather Service in Huntsville Alabama issued warnings -- twisters ripped through that area.

Thanks to a new technology called dual polarization.

Forecasters could better see radar signatures of actual tornado debris.

This Green spot shows parts of buildings and trees being tossed around.

We want to make sure that we're saying okay at this point.

A tornado is on the ground -- possibly strong tornado given this type of debris signature red you know that we're seeing.

Current radars used horizontal beams to -- storm clouds.

-- -- radar sweep with horizontal.

Any vertical beams sending back enhanced images.

It's absent.

Spotter reports are reports coming in from the ground from that site especially at night -- -- rule areas.

To be able to see that possible -- -- -- debris signature from a tornado on the ground gives forecasters increased confidence.

Confidence to trigger alert sooner with warning information that is more to -- so instead of saying like severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado.

We can save a tornadoes on the ground moving this direction fifty radar sites have been upgraded so far.

By next year every -- in the US we'll have the new equipment.

Total cost to the taxpayer.

About fifty million dollars.

-- dual polarization upgrades that radar sites across the country just like this one near Huntsville Alabama.

The National Weather Service -- it will be able to more accurately predict severe weather such as tornadoes.

Flash floods and winter storms.

Forecasters say.

It's money well spent our mission is to protect life and property hopefully this will help here Huntsville Alabama Elizabeth Randy Fox News.

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