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Posts Tagged ‘tornado forecasting’

A ONE IN TWENTY-MILLION CHANCE–The True Story of the First Tornado Forecast–Part III

By Buzz Bernard | March 24, 2014 | 0

PART III   After General Borum’s statement that Captain Miller and Major Fawbush were “about to set a precedent,” Fawbush composed the forecast–what would now be called a tornado warning (albeit one with a long lead-time)–Miller typed it up and handed it off to Base Operations for dissemination. Both men sensed their careers circling the…

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A ONE IN TWENTY-MILLION CHANCE–The True Story of the First Tornado Forecast–Part II

By Buzz Bernard | March 21, 2014 | 2

 PART II     On the morning of March 25, 1948, based on their hurried research, Captain Miller and Major Fawbush noted a significant similarity between the weather charts for that day and March 20, the date of the Tinker tornado.  The two forecasters prepared a hand-drawn prognostic chart (computerized progs were still far in…

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A ONE IN TWENTY-MILLION CHANCE–The True Story of the First Tornado Forecast–Part I

By Buzz Bernard | March 19, 2014 | 0

In the mid-20th century, tornado forecasting was considered to be beyond the “state of the art,” or in other words, impossible.  Twisters were deemed acts of God.  And any meteorologist attempting to predict what the Almighty had in mind would have been labeled a fool, a charlatan, or a court jester.  Maybe worse. Yet two…

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