Comments on: An integrated warning system is what saves lives http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366 Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:41:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: SAK http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5998 SAK Wed, 23 May 2007 12:34:12 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5998 Again, kudos Mike for a fine job that evening. Does GLD (or any other NWSFO) have access to infrasonic data (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/programs/infrasound/)? If so. has anything interesting been observed with the Greensburg tornado family or any other tornadoes this year? If not, have you heard of any interesting signatures. Either way, is the data available anywhere, and do you have anything else to add on the subject? Again, kudos Mike for a fine job that evening. Does GLD (or any other NWSFO) have access to infrasonic data (http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/programs/infrasound/)? If so. has anything interesting been observed with the Greensburg tornado family or any other tornadoes this year? If not, have you heard of any interesting signatures. Either way, is the data available anywhere, and do you have anything else to add on the subject?

]]> By: Lanny Dean http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5697 Lanny Dean Sun, 13 May 2007 07:14:41 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5697 Mike... Just a qucik kudos to you and and the entire staff, as Jay went over the tor emergency while I was doing my phoner, here I had a mile+ wide tornado filling up my horizion... I think that was when I really understood the reality of the situation. I thank you. Lanny Mike…
Just a qucik kudos to you and and the entire staff, as Jay went over the tor emergency while I was doing my phoner, here I had a mile+ wide tornado filling up my horizion… I think that was when I really understood the reality of the
situation. I thank you.
Lanny

]]> By: Karen Eagle http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5671 Karen Eagle Sat, 12 May 2007 12:45:12 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5671 Congrats on a job well done! Congrats on a job well done!

]]> By: planet pooks Why Stormchasers Chase Tornados « http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5488 planet pooks Why Stormchasers Chase Tornados « Thu, 10 May 2007 16:09:38 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5488 [...] And then there is this, mike u’s recent high plains drifter blog entry about the advance warning given at Greensburg, Kansas from the point of view of the National Weather Service. [...] [...] And then there is this, mike u’s recent high plains drifter blog entry about the advance warning given at Greensburg, Kansas from the point of view of the National Weather Service. [...]

]]> By: Matt Makens http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5368 Matt Makens Wed, 09 May 2007 17:12:20 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5368 Understandably a team effort and congratulations to the entire DDC staff - one that was obviously well prepared. As I read your warning text of the initial TOR WARN, and especially the TOR EMERG, I took great pride in knowing you. Kudos to the entire staff there, which cooperated fully with our coverage. Have a great visit with President Bush today, an honor well deserved. Understandably a team effort and congratulations to the entire DDC staff – one that was obviously well prepared. As I read your warning text of the initial TOR WARN, and especially the TOR EMERG, I took great pride in knowing you. Kudos to the entire staff there, which cooperated fully with our coverage. Have a great visit with President Bush today, an honor well deserved.

]]> By: Mike Peregrine http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5312 Mike Peregrine Tue, 08 May 2007 23:09:06 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5312 Warnings are the result of lots of different people doing lots of different things to make them happen. It's a community effort. I think that perspective came through clearly in all of your posts/interviews. You've done a lot to educate people on spotting, reporting methods and severe weather safety on this side of the state, so don't give it a second thought. Warnings are the result of lots of different people doing lots of different things to make them happen. It’s a community effort. I think that perspective came through clearly in all of your posts/interviews. You’ve done a lot to educate people on spotting, reporting methods and severe weather safety on this side of the state, so don’t give it a second thought.

]]> By: Richard Halter http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5295 Richard Halter Tue, 08 May 2007 20:28:10 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5295 Great job and kudos to your entire office. Every year there are dozens of mets staring at that radar that make the calls that save lives. You and your office just happened to be staring down the barrel of a maxinado that garnered a lot of attention. Enjoy the visibility; there is nothing better for the NWS as a whole than to have these positives when there are all the efforts to privatize so many of the functions. Oh, and one more thing, you have sure grown up since 1997 ;) Great job and kudos to your entire office. Every year there are dozens of mets staring at that radar that make the calls that save lives. You and your office just happened to be staring down the barrel of a maxinado that garnered a lot of attention. Enjoy the visibility; there is nothing better for the NWS as a whole than to have these positives when there are all the efforts to privatize so many of the functions.

Oh, and one more thing, you have sure grown up since 1997 ;)

]]> By: Verne Carlson http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5289 Verne Carlson Tue, 08 May 2007 18:59:17 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5289 Hey Mike, I thought you might have been the forecaster on duty that night. Glad to see you where, the towns folk of Greensburg thankfully had you oon duty that night! Good work. Verne Hey Mike,
I thought you might have been the forecaster on duty that night. Glad to see you where, the towns folk of Greensburg thankfully had you oon duty that night! Good work.
Verne

]]> By: Paul Knightley http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5280 Paul Knightley Tue, 08 May 2007 17:11:30 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5280 Mike - you and the rest of the guys and gals involved did a great job that night, as I mentioned on Stormtrack. It was a very fast moving and volatile situation, and it seems everyone remained calm, cool and collected. As a meteorologist in the UK, I sometimes have to make decisions or issue certain types of warnings, but in general for much lower end severe weather than you guys deal with - as such, I can, in some ways, imagine the workload that night. One day, I know we will get a major tornado in the UK, but our warning system for severe convective weather is practically non-existant at the moment. As such, I, and a few others, look to the US for the methodology and expertise to deal with such a situation, should it ever arise (and I really hope it doesn't). cheers, Paul. Mike – you and the rest of the guys and gals involved did a great job that night, as I mentioned on Stormtrack. It was a very fast moving and volatile situation, and it seems everyone remained calm, cool and collected.

As a meteorologist in the UK, I sometimes have to make decisions or issue certain types of warnings, but in general for much lower end severe weather than you guys deal with – as such, I can, in some ways, imagine the workload that night.

One day, I know we will get a major tornado in the UK, but our warning system for severe convective weather is practically non-existant at the moment. As such, I, and a few others, look to the US for the methodology and expertise to deal with such a situation, should it ever arise (and I really hope it doesn’t).

cheers,

Paul.

]]> By: Rodney Price http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366&cpage=1#comment-5279 Rodney Price Tue, 08 May 2007 17:02:12 +0000 http://www.underthemeso.com/blog/?p=366#comment-5279 Mike, I could not agree with you more! The *entire* warning process kept this tornado from being another Udall. Extremely timely NWS warnings, along with the work of the TV, radio and local emergency management folks saved lives Friday night. I don't know (and don't care really) if it was our station you were watching. Like you, I'm not here to toot my own horn. I'm simply grateful that the word got out...period! Eleven people dead is heartbreaking but there's NO doubt in my mind it could have been much worse had the whole process not worked. Rodney Price Mike,

I could not agree with you more! The *entire* warning process kept this tornado from being another Udall. Extremely timely NWS warnings, along with the work of the TV, radio and local emergency management folks saved lives Friday night. I don’t know (and don’t care really) if it was our station you were watching. Like you, I’m not here to toot my own horn. I’m simply grateful that the word got out…period! Eleven people dead is heartbreaking but there’s NO doubt in my mind it could have been much worse had the whole process not worked.

Rodney Price

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