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How meteorologists used to warn the public about incoming tornadoes
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:00 am
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:00 am
This is from the days before doppler radar.
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Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:06 am to RollTide1987
That’s neat.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:11 am to RollTide1987
Sounds like bullshite. I’m not aware that tornadoes produce significant electrical interference.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:13 am to TheHarahanian
The technique might have been bullshite but this is how it used to be in the 50s and 60s. James Spann, Alabama's favorite meteorologist, just tweeted it out.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:14 am to RollTide1987
A Tornado Warning has been issued for your area!
Source: Channel 13/2 indicated.
Source: Channel 13/2 indicated.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:15 am to TheHarahanian
quote:
Sounds like bullshite. I’m not aware that tornadoes produce significant electrical interference.
well jumping under a desk wont stop a nuke but that's how things were done then
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:20 am to TheHarahanian
quote:
Sounds like bull shite. I’m not aware that tornadoes produce significant electrical interference.
It is.
Some markets had a local station on those channels. FCC would have made them move if those channels were needed for public safety. (That's why there was no channel 1 - that frequency was for CB radio.)
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:26 am to RollTide1987
When I was growing up in Oklahoma they would just highlight the whole county. The tornado might be 20 miles away. Everyone was supposed to take cover.
These days I don’t even get excited until it’s down the street
These days I don’t even get excited until it’s down the street
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:27 am to redneck hippie
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When I was growing up in Oklahoma they would just highlight the whole county. The tornado might be 20 miles away. Everyone was supposed to take cover.
It’s still the same way. The warning goes out to the entire county.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:29 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I guess my point is we didn’t have the radar capability 40 years ago.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:30 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
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It’s still the same way. The warning goes out to the entire county.
True, but they also give you more details like "Cell capable of producing a tornado detected five miles west of Picayune moving northeast at 40 miles per hour".
Posted on 7/5/20 at 8:52 am to ksayetiger
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well jumping under a desk wont stop a nuke but that's how things
I remember those drills every year in grade school. Guess it was better than trying to herd 25 kids into a coat closet back then.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 9:36 am to gumbo2176
They also used to tell people to pull over and get in the ditch.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 9:41 am to RollTide1987
Guess people were fricked if the power cut off.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 9:59 am to jmarto1
Or go under an overpass
Posted on 7/5/20 at 10:01 am to RollTide1987
They can still do that, but the tv turns into a weather "person" who's full of drama and likes to put fear into everyone..
Posted on 7/5/20 at 10:30 am to redneck hippie
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I guess my point is we didn’t have the radar capability 40 years ago.
Come to Baton Rouge, where we don't have the radar capability NOW.
We got a tornado that touched down in the middle of the parish a couple of weeks ago and nobody fricking knew it was a tornado until it was over.
This post was edited on 7/5/20 at 10:30 am
Posted on 7/5/20 at 10:54 am to Bestbank Tiger
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I’m not aware that tornadoes produce significant electrical interference.
Lighting does create havoc on the low VHF channels.
I can remember on even on cable watching WBRZ and you could tell when a storm was near. That is partially why there are very few digital stations broadcast on low VHF.
Of course back then and even now all kinds of devices created some type of low frequency interference. A vacuum cleaner could do the same thing.
This post was edited on 7/5/20 at 11:37 am
Posted on 7/5/20 at 11:17 am to Tarps99
This is the method WABF uses now.
Posted on 7/5/20 at 11:21 am to redneck hippie
quote:
I guess my point is we didn’t have the radar capability 40 years ago.
Crazy, 40 years ago was 1980..... Just didn’t have doppler back then..
This post was edited on 7/5/20 at 11:27 am
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