Enhanced V - A pattern seen on satellite infrared photographs of thunderstorms, in which a thunderstorm anvil exhibits a V-shaped region of colder cloud tops extending downwind from the thunderstorm core.
ENHANCED V - Name given to a well defined V NOTCH feature on a radar (or even a satellite) image of an often supercell thunderstorm.
This term should not be confused with inflow notch or with enhanced V, although the latter is believed to form by a similar process.
The V-notch often is seen on supercells, and is thought to be a sign of diverging flow around the main storm updraft (and hence a very strong updraft). This term should not be confused with inflow notch or with enhanced V, ...
 See also: Should, Stability, Radar, Likely, Supercell
  
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