Dear Dr Fitch,

thanks for submitting an improved version of your manuscript. I think the manuscript is almost ready for publication; I ask you to a address the minor comments by the reviewer and also address the following minor comment:

L138: I’m not sure I understand the methodology correctly. Apparently, the authors used mean Doppler velocity (MDV) as a proxy for the fall velocity? Different than the spectrum width and the edges of the Doppler peak (which were used in Matt Shupe's paper if I remember correctly), MDV is not significantly biased by broadening (in particular below cloud base), so I’m not sure why you mention the Shupe paper here. However, radar return is always dominated by the big particles which is why MDV might be biased towards higher values in comparison to a ‘real’ mean fall velocity. I would be careful in referring to MDV as ‘ground truth’ or calling it ‘fall velocity’, because the comparison of MDV to MASC fall speed is like comparing apples to oranges. The language should reflect that so I would recommend to the KAZR data as mean Doppler velocity.