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pl23_spac0139.jpg

Among the most famous of early satellite weather photographs

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Description

Among the most famous of early satellite weather photographs. This image showeda square cloud close to the Oklahoma-Texas border. Within hours this cloudenlarged and spread northward bringing hailstones and tornadoes to centralOklahoma. A TIROS I image.

Display Date

1960 May 02

Location

Oklahoma

Collection

NOAA in Space

Imagery

Visible Imagery

Keywords

Space

Imagery

Visible