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Gary England (born October 3, 1939) is the former chief meteorologist for KWTV (channel 9), the CBS-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.England was the first on-air meteorologist to alert his viewers of a possible tornado using a commercial Doppler weather radar. [2]
On May 16, 2017, a deadly EF2 tornado struck Elk City, Oklahoma. Before the tornado formed, meteorologists at the National Weather Service Norman, Oklahoma (NWS Norman) office saw storms form in Texas. NSSL, who works in the same building as NWS Norman, had a meteorologist embedded with the NWS Norman meteorologists.
After the deadly Barnsdall tornado on May 6, some in the weather community began responding to others who complained that the forecast didn't live up to their expectations. ... How Oklahoma severe ...
On May 20, 2013, at least 24 people died after an EF5 tornado wreaked havoc across Moore, Oklahoma. The storm flattened and destroyed more than 300 homes, leaving billions of dollars in damages.
Payne received additional Regional Emmy awards and nominations for coverage of the May 8, 2003 F4 tornado that had a track paralleling that of the F5 tornado in May 1999, the El Reno tornado on April 26, 2006 [5] (along with a National Emmy), [6] an F3 tornado that hit Sweetwater, Oklahoma [7] on May 5, 2007 and for a tornado outbreak on May 24 ...
TORCON, short for the Tornado Condition Index, was developed by Dr. Greg Forbes, a meteorologist and severe weather expert at The Weather Channel who retired in 2018, as an index that helped ...
An F3 tornado hit downtown Oklahoma City five days earlier, inflicting $2.5 million (1960 USD) [7] in damages to the city and injuring 57 people. [6] The 1970s, like the 1950s, was a particularly deadly decade for tornadoes in Oklahoma, with 433 tornadoes killing a combined total of 110 people. [6]
He said in the 1970s, meteorologist Ted Fujita — for whom the scale of tornado intensity is named — wrote a paper on major tornadoes dating from 1916. “He found out . . . tornadoes seem to ...