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What are Echo Tops?

April 26, 2017echo tops

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What are Echo Tops?

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The Echo Tops product is approximately the elevation where the top of a given precipitation core is located. Echo top data is indicated by the small white numbers located near some of the radar echoes. These numbers are estimates in feet of the highest cloud tops associated with the radar echoes. This information is typically useful because the higher the cloud tops, the more intense the precipitation.