With the advent of Doppler radars they improved tornado warning quite a bit. Still the impact area is only approximate and the warning time is still just minutes. Not enough time to pull an aircraft off the flight line.
“At the time it stimulated improvements in Air Force weather forecasting.”
We were working outside at Homestead after the hurricane (Andrew??) went through and trashed it. The morning’s health and safety meeting at 6:30 included from the military guy “And make sure you are undercover by 5:51 as a thunderstorm will be coming through.” I laughed and said something like “Are you sure it won’t be 5:52?”
He gave me a stern look and said “5:51”. (He may have been using military time, I don’t recall.)
Anyway - almost 12 hours later, at 5:30 you could see it coming with lots of lightening and thunder. At 5:51 the rain started. I’m not sure how they did that.
#9 Here are the 419 photos of the damage.
http://users.waymark.net/proweb/tornado/tornado.htm