Radar Color Meanings(WMC Action News 5)
Light green= Light rain or rain
.
Dark green= Light to moderate rain
.
Yellow= Moderate rain
.
Orange= Heavy Rain
.
What color is a tornado on a weather radar?
Meteorologists look for low CC values within a tornado’s debris ball surrounded by higher values. This often appears as a
small blue circle within a larger red area
. More than just a debris ball needs to appear on radar for a tornado to be radar confirmed.
What do the different colors mean on weather radar?
The location of the colored radar echoes
indicate where precipitation is falling
and the various colors indicate the intensity of the precipitation through the color code in the legend below. Shades of blue represent lighter precipitation while red and purple indicate heavier precipitation.
What are the weather color codes?
| Hazard / Weather Event Click on the Hazard/Weather Event For Definitions Priority Color Name | Tornado Warning 2 Red | Extreme Wind Warning 3 Darkorange | Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4 Orange | Flash Flood Warning 5 Darkred |
|---|
What color is snow on radar?
Snow that is melting aloft will also often show as
yellow or orange
since radar thinks it is small hail. Image 2: Blue shows where snow is most likely. Pink is mix. Green is rain.
What does CODE red mean in weather?
CodeRED Weather Warning delivers advanced warning of severe weather
as soon as a bulletin is issued by the National Weather Service. … CodeRED Weather Warning delivers severe thunderstorm, flash flood and tornado warnings.
What does purple mean on radar?
Purple=
Extremely heavy rain or hail
.
Winter Weather
Colors. White or Blue= Snow. Pink= Freezing Rain or Sleet or Both. Sometimes snow can show up as yellow or orange as the radar may think it is small hail.
Why does the sky turn green when a tornado comes?
The “greenage” or green color in storms does not mean a tornado is coming. The green color does
signify the storm is severe though
. The color is from the water droplets suspended in the storm, absorbing red sunlight and radiating green frequencies.
How do you tell if a tornado is coming towards you?
A sound a little like a waterfall or rushing air at first, then
turning into a roar as it comes closer
. If you see a tornado and it is not moving to the right or to the left relative to trees or power poles, it may be moving towards you. Tornados usually move from the southwest to northeast.
What color is rain?
The spectrum of
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
colors reflects off the back of the raindrop, sending the light to our anxious eyes. What we see depends on the kind of storm and time of day.
What does gray mean on weather radar?
A grey cloud with a drop of water or a broken blue line indicating water covering a crescent moon means
light rain is due at night-time
. A grey cloud with a drop of water covering a yellow sun means light rain fall is due in the day time.
What does black mean on the radar?
As you know, dark colors like red or black =
bad
! Those colors mean lots of energy is being reflected back to the radar from things like hail or tons of heavy rain.
What is pink color on radar?
Areas that have a blue shading indicate precipitation that is snow or mainly snow, pink areas indicate
either freezing rain, sleet or a wintry mixture of differing precipitation types
, and the various shades of green, yellow and red have their usual meaning as increasing intensities of rainfall.
What does green mean on radar?
Velocity imagery is almost always displayed with red and green colors. Red shows winds blowing away from the radar, and
green shows winds blowing toward it
. Stronger winds usually equate to brighter colors on the radar imagery.
What color is lightning on radar?
It’s
almost always white
, but often it’s tinged with another color around the edges. The three most common colors, aside from white, are blue, yellow, and violet. The color of the bolt depends on how hot it is; the hotter the lightning, the closer the color will be to the end of the spectrum.
