rdale
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I may have mentioned it earlier in this threat - but local news will often not call it a tornado until the NWS has confirmed. They are accurate to call it a funnel cloud.
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Poor Media Use of Weather Terminology
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I may have mentioned it earlier in this threat - but local news will often not call it a tornado until the NWS has confirmed. They are accurate to call it a funnel cloud.Jeff Wright
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Even our scud is mean here…no…definitely a tornado though…that’s actually the best footage I have seen of it….other video was murky
The storm…track
January 12 Tornado Outbreak in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia
CoreLogic®️ estimates approximately 16,800 single- and multifamily residential properties with a combined reconstruction value (RCV) of $4.5B were within the Jan. 12 tornado paths in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
www.corelogic.com
More like 5 mil’ guys…it did hit a chicken house…like eggs weren’t expensive enough.
Our current concern
A Noxious Underground Landfill Fire Has Burned for Weeks in Alabama
Nearby residents say the fumes are giving them nosebleeds, headaches, and trouble breathing.
gizmodo.com
Alvaro ivan
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The Star called this particular Malaysia tornado as "tornado-like phenomenon"
Alvaro ivan
EF0
Motorcyclist Spots Dust Devil While Training in Argentina
A motorcyclist spotted a towering dust devil while training for the Dakar Rally in Santa Maria in the Catamarca region of Argentina on November 18.This footage recorded by Luciano Benavides shows both close-up and long-distance views of the dust devil, and shows bikers getting pelted with...ca.finance.yahoo.com
Dust devil? That video literally shows a tornado on the ground, you can even see the dust being connected to a funnel and the cloud base
JamesCaruso
Staff memberFrom a Wall Street Jounal article about the Rolling Fork Tornado
“The severe weather began as heavy rain Friday afternoon across Arkansas, Missouri and the Ohio Valley, and then turned into what’s known as a supercell, a particularly powerful type of rotating thunderstorm, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Marc Chenard.”
Jason N
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where's the Emoji for "ugh", lolJeff Wright
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You gotta watch those raindrops when they get into groups—they get mean.
Still waiting to chase supercells with my Pinky and the Brain Herkimer suit—made by Hurtburtse the bear chaser.
Alvaro ivan
EF0
I don't know why it was called as "dust devil"Motorcyclist Spots Dust Devil While Training in Argentina
A motorcyclist spotted a towering dust devil while training for the Dakar Rally in Santa Maria in the Catamarca region of Argentina on November 18.This footage recorded by Luciano Benavides shows both close-up and long-distance views of the dust devil, and shows bikers getting pelted with...
Dust devil? That video literally shows a tornado on the ground, you can even see the dust being connected to a funnel and the cloud baseJeff Wright
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Yeah…Dust Devil……Argentina…”you keep your distance…I kept my promise!”
Alvaro ivan
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Ummmmmmmm....what?
Stan Rose
EF5
Sure, don't you see it--it's right at the end of that possible road in front of the possible clouds!
Andy Wehrle
EF5
I mentioned it in another thread but that's standard media terminology unless a tornado has been officially confirmed by NWS survey, even though it's really meant for situations where some storm damage occurred in the middle of the night or invisible inside a wall of rain. When a hundred chasers have video of a huge funnel flinging debris everywhere, then...<shrugs>.
I work as a newscast director for a local TV station, and I've told our producers to stop using that term when there's clear video of it. It usually comes to us in the boilerplate scripts that accompany national network video.
Alvaro ivan
EF0
Not entirely sure why it's called as "possible tornado"
Andy Wehrle
EF5
See my reply above.
Alvaro ivan
EF0
Storyful is the usain bolt of poorly using the weather terminologyJeff Wright
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My favorite was on The Weather Channel decades ago:
The girl was trying to say “hot off the press” and she said “my hot little hands.”
Alvaro ivan
EF0
Ummmm...what? That's literally a tornado on the ground
Jamie H
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It's just journalism. If you cannot 100% verify it, you can't call it what it seems.rdale
EF5
Just a gentle reminder that "tornado" means that the rotation is touching the surface. You don't say "on the ground" because there is no alternative tornado option...
John Farley
SupporterSheesh! Opening picture is "possible tornado"? If this is not a tornado there is no such thing.
Powerful storms leave 700,000 power outages across South and Ohio Valley as possible tornado hits Indiana | CNN
Alvaro ivan
EF0
Andy Wehrle
EF5
It's kind of a dead horse at this point, isn't it? It's standard media practice to wait for NWS confirmation that a tornado occurred. Yes, it looks silly when there's spectacular video of it in progress. My station did this in our story about the Greenwood tornado this morning. I reminded our producer not to do that when there's clear video, but it'll probably keep happening.
Alvaro ivan
EF0
Found another post about the Greenwood tornado (called as "funnel cloud" by AP)
Alvaro ivan
EF0
AP deleted their tweet but i found two more
Weatherman Robert De Vries hunts hurricanes in America (commentaryboxsports.com) Um... what? I think you mean tornadoes? Or supercells? I don't see any actual hurricanes mentioned in this article... at least correctly.Similar threads
