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Lauderdale, FL. Central to DAWN\u2019s deployment was the goal of obtaining high time and spatial resolution wind velocity measurements, particularly with respect to the convective life cycle. We describe the processes involved in deriving wind profiles from DAWN observations and evaluate the performance of DAWN in terms of data coverage, resolution and frequency. Comparisons with dropsonde wind measurements show an overall low bias of &lt;0.20 m\/s with a RMSD of ~1.6 and R2 &gt; 0.92 for both u and v components for the data set as a whole (over 160 comparisons). From this CPEX experience, we find that the DAWN wind profiles are of high precision, ~30 m vertical resolution and with horizontal spacing as fine as 3\u20137 km, and rival dropsondes for horizontal wind coverage (aerosols and clouds permitting). 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