Storm chasers - let’s just make severe weather reports and not follow up with any drama afterward. Sometimes the NWS office has info that says it shouldn’t be warned. The best thing for mental health is to make the report, and don’t even check to see if a warning was issued. Our job as chasers is just to make the report, that’s it. Not sure who trashed NWS Milwaukee for issuing the tornado warning! I think the storm certainly had the potential to produce a tor way back to Freeport, but just remained a little outflow dominant
Storm chasers - let’s just make severe weather reports and not follow up with any drama afterward. Sometimes the NWS office has info that says it shouldn’t be warned. The best thing for mental health is to make the report, and don’t even check to see if a warning was issued. Our job as chasers is just to make the report, that’s it. Not sure who trashed NWS Milwaukee for issuing the tornado warning! I think the storm certainly had the potential to produce a tor way back to Freeport, but just remained a little outflow dominant
I just feel terrible for chasers NWS forecasters YouTubers TV Mets and even grad students. I feel bad for all of us
@ReedTimmerUSA I agree tim with that statement 💯 percent don’t trash nws for not issuing a tor warning there’s was a severe thunderstorm warning issues if nothing was issued then I can see the argument but I don’t see trashing them for doing their job
This is wild because there was a tornado confirmed in DVN area near Freeport, but no warning issued with reports coming in, then reports of a tornado flood in again when the storm was outflow dominant, and the reports were ignored by NWS Chicago but NWS Milwaukee issued the warning based on the reports, which probably is the right move. The supercell had tornado potential since it was out near Freeport, so a tornado warning would have satisfied that box while not increasing false alarm rate or decreasing trust in NWS since it could be shown it had tornado potential. Then the community quickly pivoted to driving issues and kind of wrapped them up together. Such a complicated drama from such a low end event, when really only one NWS office made the correct call, even though keeping a yellow box can be argued in this case. I don’t think NWS made any errors really since it was such a low end threat. We need a write up on this
@ReedTimmerUSA I notice that many people in the weather community take things personally- They let ego get in the way, then get embarrassed and/or try to make others embarrassed to boost their ego. It's so goofy.
@ReedTimmerUSA There are very few storm chasers that have more information than the NWS, at any given time. I don’t get why we dedicated hobbyists think that we know more than the paid professionals. We may not have the red tape but regardless, they usually will know better.
In this case I think it’s a good job by NWS whether a yellow or red box is out. Could be argued either way.
@ReedTimmerUSA NWS does the best with the information they have. Chasers and spotters are data points, valuable but only as reliable as any eyewitness testimony. NWS' job is to use all the data they have to make the best judgement call, and they shouldn't be attacked for it by chasers for sure.