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Description: This image shows Hurricane Erika at 4:59 a.m. CDT on August 16, 2003, as it neared its landfall in Mexico. The foreground image is reflectivity data from the NWS NEXRAD radar at Brownsville, Texas; which is the black dot to the north of the center of the image. The background is true colour imagery derived from NASA's MODIS satellites.
Title: Hurricane Erika 2003 Radar
Credit: Radar data from the NCDC NEXRAD database. Background image is NASA Blue Marble imagery.
Author: Composite created by Nilfanion.
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