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eflectivity partially reached up to 14 km altitudes. We have analysed this event in the companionpaper by Röttger et al. (2003, this issue), which occurred between 08 and 10 LT on 28 September.Towards the end of the observing period, on the backside of the typhoon, short lived reflectivitylayers <strong>with</strong> upward moving tendencies were observed. This is quite different as compared to theobservations 24-26 September on the front-side of the typhoon.Fig. 3 Radar reflectivity compared <strong>with</strong> precipitation (lower left-hand panel) during passage ofLekima. The strongest rain fall occurred during the quick change of direction and reduction ofwind velocity (second and third left-hand panel from bottom) just after closest approach of thetyphoon eye, but there was no particular structure in the reflectivity. The reflectivity was reachinghigh altitudes of 10 km in the far regions of the typhoon’s eye.spiral bandsUpward moving“mini-fronts” appearas part of the spiralband structure of thetyphoon.Fig. 4 Zooming in to fine structure in the reflectivity shows mini-structures <strong>with</strong> periods of lessthan one hour (each tick-mark in this graph depicts a full hour), which are assumed to be relatedto the spiral structure of typhoons. Records are over 9.5 hours on 25 September 2001 (Lekima).276

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