AccuWeather rips Weather Service for dismissing tornado threat in Oklahoma Wednesday

[rdale]

Rocye - are you serious? You are talking about the Moore OK cell? It was not a classic signature by any means. If that cell got a tornado warning with 15 minutes lead time, we'd be issuing a warning on every "mean-looking" cell.

 

[rdale]

Here is some great analysis from Rich Thompson and Skip Talbot

https://www.facebook.com/rich.thompson.161/posts/10204948725532787

https://www.facebook.com/skip.talbot/posts/10101342365979831?pnref=story

 

[Jake Orosi]

On Marcus' show last night, Skip Talbot did a great job dissecting the AccuWeather release point-by-point. The short version is, if AccuWeather tornado-warned the OKC/Moore area for the specific reasons they allude to in the PDF, then it's purely coincidence that the 3/25/15 tornado happened to touch down in their warned area; because the images used in the release show that their "superior forecasting model" allegedly predicted a mesocyclonic supercell tornado, which the Moore tornado was decidedly not. The PDF is written with the expectation that the person reading it will be unaware of the difference.