Severe Weather Today?

[rdale]

There should be no fire... I saw the title and thought it would be a discussion of the severe weather threat which I was following myself. It wasn't, and I was just surprised about his claim that most OK people on this forum wouldn't know of the threat if he didn't repost.

Glad twobravo saved the day ;>

 

[car2back]

I'm not questioning discussing an event or anything related to that - just expressing surprise that Okahoma scanner users aren't aware of a big tornado threat unless it's posted here. I always heard that OK's were very weather savvy, but if a repost of products available from many many other sources if how you find out a tornado might hit today -- that seems a little strange.

Again - I don't question DISCUSSING an event here. Just reposting weather products available from many other sources.

Normally I try not to feed the trolls, RDALE, but going along with yout statement, Why should the NWS be allowed to send SPC outlooks on the Oklahoma Law Enforcement Telecommunications Network when teminal operators can just watch local TV coverage? :roll:


I agree with PJ, if the moderators have a problem with it, they'll handle it!

 

[rdale]

"Why should the NWS be allowed to send SPC outlooks"

They are "allowed to" because the law enforcement community asked for it... Do you think NWS posting them on a law enforcement bulletin board would get the same distribution?

Still don't get the connection to scanning ;>

 

[KD5WLX]

OK RDALE, here's your connection to scanning. I can't speak for PJ, but I am a Skywarn Stormspotter. Because of that, I don't look here for my weather forecast. On the other hand, when I'm spotting I'm on a dual-band amateur radio to both the EOC and the NWS, and have two scanners monitoring local FD/PD (good to know which roads are blocked by downed trees or flooding, etc.) and a second on spotter freqs from surrounding areas and/or other emergency agencies (the primary scanner is frequently locked on whichever FD that covers the area I'm in).

So, for any total "scanner junkie" that might have missed the weather forecast the night before, PJ just clued them in that I'LL be out there, and where (if they're a true junkie, they probably already have all my freqs programmed, and recognize my voice, too).

 

[Freqed]

Well let me connect you. Last Monday night I was at work until 7 PM, as i came home the most severe stuff was hovering around my neighborhood, Since the AM/FM doesn't get into decent coverage on weather events. I tried to view the TWC homepage but INTERNET isn't always 100% and won't let me. Being lazy and having not programmed the local Skywarn freq's into my radio I have to search to find the active freq. for the area. I could just tune to TV on the scanner, but they are still 1-2 minuets behind the skywarn updates and if the storm is multi-county wide they could be 2-3 minuets behind. I get the fastest reports on the Skywarn system, and knew nothing about it until it showed up on this forum. Having lived near the country's Now second worst tornado (Xenia, OH 4/3/74) as a youngin I take weather seriously, especially now that I live in the "Alley". I completed building my home in Dec of '98 only to watch the May disasters of 99 come within 4 houses of my home @ Midnight. No radio at the time, but purchased several shortly after.

 

[rdale]

"I tried to view the TWC homepage but INTERNET isn't always 100% and won't let me."

So you couldn't get to TWC's website, but you got on here and found PJ's post about severe weather? That's a strange net connection you got there ;>

"No radio at the time, but purchased several shortly after."

Good idea! Unfortunately it takes a disaster to get many people interested in NOAA weather radios...

 

[Freqed]

Actually the TWC site would only show a Tornado Warning banner and no other info would show up. No map of the area, no indicator of where, nothing. I don't rely on NOAA either, the radios I refer to are scanners, With my 780xlt on Scanner Masters battery back-up system when needed.