[PhiKapMom]

Living near a major tornado struck area makes you stop and think. Live 5 miles south of the Moore (F-5+) tornado that hit on 3 May 1999. The tornado that hit the Kansas City area had that same wedge shape as the Moore tornado.

Storm trackers from the Storm Prediction Center here in Norman have been tracking these tornadoes as they go across the Country. Don't see how they get people to be storm trackers as they get right up on the tornadoes and report the strength and direction they are headed. These storm trackers have saved countless lives over the years.

Prayers go out to the people affected by this outbreak of tornadoes!

[archy]

Storm trackers from the Storm Prediction Center here in Norman have been tracking these tornadoes as they go across the Country. Don't see how they get people to be storm trackers as they get right up on the tornadoes and report the strength and direction they are headed. These storm trackers have saved countless lives over the years.

Many of our Severe Weather Skywarn Spotters are ham radio operators, often retired or with previous experience as police, fire department or as military radio communicators or in other emergency services. And, of course there are also meteorologists to whom tornadic winds are but a part of their job description, and whose respect for the storms is tempered with respect for their capibilities, but not overwritten by fear derived from any lack of knowledge or understanding of the conditions.

[thunders]

Eh, the people that 'they' get to be storm trackers are the ones who really love the intensity and are there because they like it--they wouldn't be there if they didn't!

At one point during my teenage years, I thought it would be very fun to be a storm tracker...now I'm still enthralled by the severe thunderstorms we get across the OK area, but I'm content just to watch them from a safer point of veiw...