Tornado Warning Issued Until October
FairCityNews.com | Apr 11, 2011 | Comments 1
Springfield, MO—Local meteorologist have issued a tornado warning to last the entire spring and summer of 2011: experts expect the alert to expire sometime in early October.
“The Ozarks are blessed with fantastic weather, we just have a small patch of time -7 months – when God’s finger can destroy your home, belongings and kill your friends and family,” said a spokesperson at the Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.
Twisters usually account for terrorizing 3 mobile homes a day in the Ozarks, and are frequently blamed for misplacing meth labs. Weather crews at all local television and radio stations celebrate the start of the season by attending Tornada-palooza where new weather phenomenon terms are defined for the coming season.
“Last year at the ‘conference’ we introduced ‘straight line winds’ which was awesome, really gave us something else to say over the course of half a year reporting on tornadoes in the area,” said a KSPR weather reporter, “This year we came away with ‘twisted air currents’, however ‘jumbly clouds’, ‘wrapping winds’ and ‘inconsiderate atmospheric pressure’ were also approved for limited use.”
Tornado-palooza is held each April 1st at Table Rock Lake where attendees share storm stories, discussed the last time they were F-5ed and are introduced to new weather tracking technology like the Forecaster 10 or F-Ten or simply the F-10.
Ozark area residents are expected to endure a long tornado season with lots of overly excited weather reporters interrupting their favorite television show at the slightest hint of “twisted air currents” over the next several months.
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