Hannah.Taylor
EF4
I will not name anyone by name (if they choose to come forward so be it), but I know of several chasers who have used the WRF
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/wrf/
(there may be another site for the WRF too, just can't seem to recall it).
and have been mostly spot on when big stuff is going to happen and were in position when big storms fired off and produced violent and destructive tornadoes.
Joplin 2011, Guthrie 2011, El Reno 2011, and Shawnee, OK 5-19-2013 and Moore, OK 5-20-2013.
Are there any reliable statistics from past projections with the WRF, and if they're fairly accurate...why are we not using these projections to warn large populated areas of impending devastation well ahead of time before the event???
15 minutes was the warning time yesterday for the Moore, OK tornado...but if we have this type of technology available to project something of this nature....why are we not doing more?
Forgive me for being asinine (and ignorant), but I'm a bit emotional over yesterday's tragic tornado hitting Moore, OK...it's just frustrating to think that 15 minutes is all the better we can do considering all the technology and advancements we have made in the last 100 years.
That's 15 minutes for those in the vicinity of a smartphone, tornado siren, tv or radio or computer. For those caught in between...they might have had 2-5 minutes warning if they were lucky. That's not good enough.
If the WRF stats show these projections not to be that reliable, then I understand, but I haven't heard or seen this discussion come up, so I'm asking to find out.
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/wrf/
(there may be another site for the WRF too, just can't seem to recall it).
and have been mostly spot on when big stuff is going to happen and were in position when big storms fired off and produced violent and destructive tornadoes.
Joplin 2011, Guthrie 2011, El Reno 2011, and Shawnee, OK 5-19-2013 and Moore, OK 5-20-2013.
Are there any reliable statistics from past projections with the WRF, and if they're fairly accurate...why are we not using these projections to warn large populated areas of impending devastation well ahead of time before the event???
15 minutes was the warning time yesterday for the Moore, OK tornado...but if we have this type of technology available to project something of this nature....why are we not doing more?
Forgive me for being asinine (and ignorant), but I'm a bit emotional over yesterday's tragic tornado hitting Moore, OK...it's just frustrating to think that 15 minutes is all the better we can do considering all the technology and advancements we have made in the last 100 years.
That's 15 minutes for those in the vicinity of a smartphone, tornado siren, tv or radio or computer. For those caught in between...they might have had 2-5 minutes warning if they were lucky. That's not good enough.
If the WRF stats show these projections not to be that reliable, then I understand, but I haven't heard or seen this discussion come up, so I'm asking to find out.
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