Archive for February, 2007

New Tornado Scale Is More Accurate
February 16, 2007

It was May 3, 1999 and an outbreak of severe thunderstorms was racing through Kansas and Oklahoma. Thanks to the wonder of satellite technology, I was able to tune in our Hearst sister station in Oklahoma City, KOCO, and watch their coverage of the storms. I was amazed at what I saw.
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Tornado History Repeating Itself
February 3, 2007

When the phone rang early Friday morning with news of a tornado outbreak in Central Florida, vivid memories of a February nine short years ago came flooding into my mind. The series of powerful storms that tore through Lake and Polk counties just a couple of days ago were eerily similar to the state’s deadliest [...]