joel ewing
EF5
Brian, thanks so very much for posting the NWS / Grand Island / Norfolk / Alliance / Hastings / Omaha transcripts of this incredible event. I was bored tonite and decided to surf on into StormTrack to see if there was anything that was interesting to check out. Wow! Talk about ending my boredom quickly....those 14 pages were absolutely riveting!! It's hard to believe that this event is over 30 yrs. old now. Like I said in a previous post, one of my cousins was living in G.I at the time. She took shelter in some building that just got narrowly missed by one of those tornadoes. She told me..."They really DO sound like trains!"
While reading this transcript, one thing that stuck out to me was how well all these guys from the various weather agencies throughout Nebraska worked together. For those that haven't read this yet, Grand Island was bombarded by at least 8 tornadoes, some of them killers, in one evening. The crew from the NWS in Grand Island (NWS Grand Island is now actually just north of Hastings, Nebraska....about a half-hour south of Grand Island), which was very near the airport, had to evacuate their stations to go underground at least twice during this event. During these evacuations, it was amazing how flawlessly the surrounding NWS offices picked up the slack and continued manning the various radar views as well as verbally issuing tornado warnings throughout the central and east central portions of the state. I don't even work for the NWS, and just reading this account made me proud as hell for the job all these offices did under incredibly stressful conditions. But, we Nebraskans, that's just an everyday way of life for us...haha. My thanks once again for posting these transcripts, Brian.
While reading this transcript, one thing that stuck out to me was how well all these guys from the various weather agencies throughout Nebraska worked together. For those that haven't read this yet, Grand Island was bombarded by at least 8 tornadoes, some of them killers, in one evening. The crew from the NWS in Grand Island (NWS Grand Island is now actually just north of Hastings, Nebraska....about a half-hour south of Grand Island), which was very near the airport, had to evacuate their stations to go underground at least twice during this event. During these evacuations, it was amazing how flawlessly the surrounding NWS offices picked up the slack and continued manning the various radar views as well as verbally issuing tornado warnings throughout the central and east central portions of the state. I don't even work for the NWS, and just reading this account made me proud as hell for the job all these offices did under incredibly stressful conditions. But, we Nebraskans, that's just an everyday way of life for us...haha. My thanks once again for posting these transcripts, Brian.