The National Severe Storms Laboratory's Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment(SHAVE) began verifying wind damage on high temporal and spatial resolution scales in 2007.During the first three years of wind damage data collection, the details of the reports focused ontree/tree limb size and simple descriptions of structural damage (i.e., "small shed destroyed").During the summer of 2010, the SHAVE wind call script was modified in order to increase the detailof the reports in the archive. The new script focused on concise questions which offered parallels tothe Enhanced Fujita scale damage indicators and degrees of damage. This modification to the callscript and the high resolution nature of the reports allows researchers to compare familiar winddamage signatures from high resolution radar data to a more encompassing and detailed damageswath than can be found in Storm Data. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate radarsignatures associated with severe wind and/or wind damage. Wind damage swaths collectedduring SHAVE were used as the verification for these signatures. In total, 74 SHAVE report swathscollected between 2008 and 2010 were analyzed. This paper summarizes the relationshipsbetween differing storm types and radar signatures while discussing how SHAVE reports can beimplemented when verifying severe wind damage events.
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