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Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank Bill Borghoff for his time and effort in drafting the figures for this paper. The
author benefited from discussions with the entire staff at NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan, including Bill Borghoff
and Alex Lamers. John Eise and Alex Lamers provided much of the data used in this manuscript. The author
thanks Matthew Bunkers for providing a locally developed program used for wind shear calculations. Lastly,
the author thanks Kim Licitar for his help and expertise in maintaining the software used in this study.
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