America's first public tornado 'bulletin'

We can take the committed team of meteorologists for granted, who monitor the threat from storm 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

March 17, 1952, today 73 years ago, was another pioneering day in the history of the storm forecast.

At this moment, the analysis of the US weather office (WBAN) analysis of the Army Navy (WBAN) exhibited its first public tornado “Bulletin”, which is considered as a clock for the potential of tornados in parts of the south that night and in the morning.

While the only two tornados performed directly outside the area highlighted in the bulletin that night, another Tornado bulletin lifted an area four days later, which was from Missouri to Louisiana to the Tennessee -Valley, which was then met by three dozen tornados, who claimed 208 life.

These general forecasts of severe thunderstorms and tornados were four years before two tornados were made on Oklahomas Tinker Air Force Base at the end of March 1948. For over 50 years, the word “Tornado” has been banned in state forecasts from late 1880s to 1938 due to the spread of the public.

Until 1953, the now renamed Higary Storm Warning Center (SELS) began to discuss regularly in Higary Storm Warning Center (SELS), who were later known to the meteorologist as “convective views”. The following year Sels moved to Washington, DC, to Kansas City, where she moved to Norman, Oklahoma in 1997.

Today they are known as Storm Prediction Center. SPC meteorologists, which were held with the local National Weather Service Offices, spent 726 heavy thunderstorms and Tornado watches in the USA in 2024. They also issue storm forecasts up to seven days in advance. SPC is the first head to have the potential of dangerous thunderstorms near you.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at Weather.com and has reported national and international weather since 1996. Extreme and bizarre weather are his favorite topics. Apply to him BlueskyPresent X (formerly Twitter) And Facebook.