battle between ground obs and doppler obs

[Eric Flescher]

Note:I am not specifically asking for a focus on just this situation on the Discovery channel recently but an overall query in your situations day in and day out /stormchasing/ weather situations etc


Re: What I found more interesting about this episode (Discovery channel Stormchaser) was the battle between
(1) ground observing / scouting and
(2) doppler observations

What do you personally focus more on

(1) or (2) ?



(yeah I know you all do both but which do you depend on the most when it comes down to really knowing which way to go, when etc etc

 

[rdale]

There wasn't really a "battle" -- the Doppler was completely reversed so it was in error... I can't imagine an instance where 88D would show a tornado 10 east of Podunk while spotters reported it 10 west.

 

[Forrest lambert]

see this is why we have spotters/chasers to help out radar, etc, about where the storm is!

 

[rdale]

True, but again the 88D can't be reversed like the DOW. Just not possible.

 

[John Wetter]

see this is why we have spotters/chasers to help out radar, etc, about where the storm is!

Yeah, this isn't really the reason. We need spotters, but for ground truth, not really location of this type of thing.

Is the original question about the show more based on the 'video' crew vs. the 'science' crew, as they say in the show?

-John

 

[Terry Tyler]

me personally...

i look at both aspects to get an overall perspective of what kind of threat might be out there with the storms...

 

[Joel Wright]

I would bet that Josh won't make that same mistake again.