Tag Archives: terrys take

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  Terry’s Take: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s a weather balloon!

  Everyday, NOAA’s National Weather Service launches weather balloons from 102 sites throughout the United States, the Caribbean and the Pacific…
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  Terry’s Take: Tornado season, not as bad as you might think

  TORNADO SEASON HAS PEAKED, SO FAR SO GOOD! The flurry of tornadoes including the two devastating EF5 tornadoes in Moore…
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  Terry’s Take: Super tornadoes…are we ready?

  Tornado Expert Mike Smith out of Wichita, Kansas described the El Reno, Okla., tornado, which is considered the widest tornado…
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  Terrys Take: Iowa’s wettest spring ever. Working on the wettest year!

  Iowa’s weather has now officially completed a 360 degree turn and gone from dusty to soggy. So soggy, that this…
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  Terry’s Take: 2011 The year of the tornado!

  Tornado statistics are like baseball statistics. There are many ways to describe a season and the performance (or lack thereof)…
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  Terry’s Take: The Mattoon/Charleston tornado of 1917

  The 3rd deadliest tornado disaster in Illinois history occurred on May 26, 1917.  On that date 96 years ago, 101…
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  Terry’s Take: Lightning, an illuminating force

  Did you know that at any given moment, there are 1,800 thunderstorms in progress somewhere on Earth? This amounts to…
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  Terry’s Take: Moore, Oklahoma no stranger to violent twisters

  When it comes to tornadoes, Moore, Oklahoma has to be the unluckiest town in Tornado Alley. The suburb of Oklahoma…
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  Terry’s Take: Record breaking Iowa tornado drought

  Here’s a remarkable fact, the last time a tornado occurred in Iowa was on May 24th, 2012 in Fayette County…
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  Terrys Take: Just when you think you’ve seen it all!

  I’ve seen a thing or two in my days in weather but nothing beats the last 2 weeks for extreme…
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  Terry’s Take: The flood of 2013-(the ingredients)

  Last week was a classic setup for heavy rain across not only the immediate area but for much of eastern…
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  Terry’s Take: 50 years of tornadoes…no EF-5′s

  I came across some neat information from the Storm Prediction Center on local tornadoes from 1961 to 2011. Over that…