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20 July 2016
Memphis Airport Hit by Strong Microburst
Here is a radar image showing the nearly circular outflow boundary, from the NWS in Memphis. Here are the obs from the airport at the time of the event. Angela Fritz, at Capital Weather Gang, posted an image of an amazing downburst over Phoenix earlier this week here. The damage from these events are often mistaken for tornado damage, and a famous downburst led to the crash of Delta Airlines …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.