One year ago today - Joplin

[wx247]

As someone who lives within the Springfield CWA and close to Joplin, let me say that the residents had plenty of warning that a tornado was likely even if the ground truth reports were too delayed. The problem that was illustrated here (as it is time and time again) is that many people don't take tornado warnings seriously and/or know what to do and where to go. Each year we have several warnings issued here and people grow weary and fatigued. I am sure it is that way wherever there are lots of warnings. Yet, those warnings are issued for a reason. The fact that this man (Mr. Smith) feels it necessary to denegrate the situation is someone who is looking to needlessly start an argument.

For heaven's sake... the radio and tv stations in Joplin were all over the storm. KSN even had the tornado on their live cam. What more can they do?

[Cyclenall]

Hopefully they come up with a high-speed radar eventually as well.

High-speed radars already exist, one scan every minute but for some dumb reason, its not being made to the public yet. Hopefully it comes through NOAAPORT sooner rather than later because it would really rocket radar advancement among everyone. I also see DOW scanning pretty fast when its out there but I don't know the rate.

There is more information on these 1 minute scans: http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/PublicDo ... oducts.pdf

Its more out there than I first thought, if one is using GRLevelx, archived radar data can come in 1 minute intervals but the current products are around 6 minutes still (unless that has changed with the new version of GR3 2.0). You can also view 1 minute intervals on Weather Underground too. Only select TDWR sites have this at the lowest tilt.