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Enhanced Wording - An option used by the SPC in tornado and severe thunderstorm watches when the potential for strong/violent tornadoes, or unusually widespread damaging straight-line winds, is high.

 


Enhanced Wording An option used by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma in tornado and severe thunderstorm watches when the potential for strong/violent tornadoes, or unusually widespread damaging straight-line winds, is high.

This enhanced wording may also accompany severe thunderstorm watches for intense convective wind storms.

PDS Watch: Slang for a tornado watch with enhanced wording (Particularly Dangerous Situation).
Peak Discharge: Rate of discharge of a volume of water passing a given location. (Usually in cubic feet per second.) ...

PDS Watch - [Slang], a tornado watch with enhanced wording (Particularly Dangerous Situation).
Pendant Echo - Radar signature generally similar to a hook echo, except that the hook shape is not as well defined.

PDS WATCH
A tornado watch with enhanced wording (Particularly Dangerous Situation).
PEAK GUST
The highest instantaneous wind speed observed or recorded.

[Slang] A Severe Thunderstorm Watch or Tornado Watch with Enhanced Wording ("THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION") issued by the Storm Prediction Center.
PDSI ...

Tornado Watch- A Tornado Watch outlines an area where large hail and damaging wind threats, as well as the possibility of multiple tornadoes are possible. In rare situations, the enhanced wording, ...

Browse Related Terms: Blue Watch or Blue Box, Enhanced Wording, Red Watch or Red Box, SEL, Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Tornado Watch, Watch, Watch Cancellation, Watch Status Reports, Winter Storm Watch ...

PDS - Particularly Dangerous Situation. A special wording applied to high-risk severe weather watches. Commonly referred to as ENHANCED WORDING. Example: "This is a particularly dangerous situation with the possibility of very damaging tornadoes." ...

See also: Likely, Severe Thunderstorm, Front, Thunderstorm, Weather

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