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!
Poor Media Use of Weather Terminology
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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
EF1
Andy Wehrle
EF5
See my reply above.
Alvaro ivan
EF1
Storyful is the usain bolt of poorly using the weather terminology
Jeff 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.”
The girl was trying to say “hot off the press” and she said “my hot little hands.”
Alvaro ivan
EF1
Ummmm...what? That's literally a tornado on the ground
Jamie H
EF3
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
Supporter
Sheesh! 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
Powerful storms leave 700,000 power outages across South and Ohio Valley as possible tornado hits Indiana | CNN
Alvaro ivan
EF1
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
EF1
Found another post about the Greenwood tornado (called as "funnel cloud" by AP)
Alvaro ivan
EF1
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.
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