National Weather Service weather radar from Jackson, MS clearly shows a debris plume. This is near-real time radar, currently 8 hours after the break-up.
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Why would there still be echos this long after and in MO?
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Because the pieces are very very tiny (think dust) and they are floating with the prevailing winds. They are over Mississippi (east of Texas), not Missouri.
I dunno about dust--probably lightweight stuff like shielded insulation, thin sheet metal pieces, that sort of stuff. It's essentially a cloud of chaff, like the metal foil a fighter dispenses to evade a radar-guided missile.
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