BRINGING TO SURFACE: WARNING PRECAUTIONS ARE AT TIMES NOT PROPERLY OR ACCURATELY BEING GIVEN

As a meteorologist, my mission is to provide accurate and timely weather forecasts, analyze meteorological data, and communicate weather-related information to the public to ensure public safety, save lives, property, and the environment. I have been seeing a few trends lately that I want to bring my followers attention to. From my viewpoint, reporting agencies have been neglectful in reporting promptly, providing full weather disclosure, and reporting accurate information at times.

For instance, September 8th, 2023 was a wild ride over the DFW network. The National Weather Service seemed to disregard and broadcast the full esteem of the storm. There was only one 80mph hour windbox dropped, and that was for the “Center,” that particular radar is located just North of Burleson, Texas. All the various radar reports, over the Fort Worth area, are conducive of 70-90mph winds. The KFWS radar in Crawley, Texas (SVR) super high-res storm radar was constantly picking up 68-108mph winds. Omitting to report greater than 90mph winds, including the 108mph wind conditions can be misleading to the impact and destruction capabilities of the storm, and provide proper warning.

Secondly, News companies were saying this storm event was tornadic. This is not accurate, as there was no leading edge rotation nor internal rotation. Yes, the GR 2 programs were picking up rotation. This would be a usual thing, though, during this type of storm where 90 mph winds are present. It is time the local news companies start putting more effort into forecasting storms correctly. They need to start grinding out long intense days, of 40-80 hour weeks, like us Storm Chaser’s due. Overall, it just shows how unequipped the media is for covering severe weather. I put hours and hours of time, education, research and chasing to keep others safe. Unfortunately, what I have described above is not the first instance of this happening. At this time I am frustrated and believe it is time that it comes to surface in some areas that the ball is being dropped, in order to send a warning or precaution.

In example, the tornado that happened over Van Texas or earlier in the year in the Father’s Day dracho line. This is the same dracho line that affected Shreveport, Louisiana. Again, there was no warning given until the severe warning came out for 80mph winds.

Would you like to know why the National Weather Service only lists 80 mph winds?

It’s due to the fact that the government is NOT obligated to pay for any of this, when the winds are under 90mph. 90mph winds is what is referred to as emergency life-threatening weather. Radar and ground readings listed a 128mph wind moving through Shreveport that night.

Last example, let’s look at the largest tornado that has occurred in the last 10 years. The “Rolling Forks,” tornado occured in Rolling Fork, Mississippi. We were sitting in Delhi, Louisiana watching it. The warning for this storm was a tornado emergency warning that was put to the Southern side of Rolling Fork. That is the reason if you notice on the page, people were saying they got the warning, the problem is only about 25% of the city knew it was coming. Unfortunately, this was due to error on part of the Jackson, Mississippi radar site.

In conclusion, we turn and burn out here, keep long hours, keep you and your family safe. We venture into the midst of severe weather events with my goal of better understanding storm’s behavior, improving forecasting and providing earlier warnings of impending weather. By monitoring and reporting on developing storms, I aim to contribute to timely and accurate weather alerts, potentially saving lives by ensuring communities have sufficient time to prepare for and respond to impending threats.

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