OMG it rained and lightninged and thundered last night and I slept in me bed in my bedroom. Oh wait wrong day. I was supposed to be in my basement a few days ago cause.....cause.............cause......

Wow a thunderstorm in June in KC......wtf would of thought that would happen?

Seriously. They're over the top this year.

Props to Mike Thompson!!!


http://blogkc.com/archives/2005/06/m...-katie-horner/

TORNADO GHOST STORIES!!!!!

My main point of tonight’s blog is this: Tornado warnings are supposed to be reserved for tornadoes! If you were watching our coverage of the storms last night, you likely saw me mentioning, or rather stressing the fact that there was no tornado in Johnson County (Kansas) . Don made brief mention of this below. Now, it may seem pretty nit picky to you, but I feel that the vernacular in severe weather warnings is very important. When you start issuing tornado warnings, you should be darn sure that: 1. The threat is real 2. You know what you are talking about, and can back it up 3. You realize that you are elevating the level of panic and anxiety among your viewers. To haphazardly throw out tornado warnings, just because you can, leads you down the path of crying wolf. You may get away with it for quite some time before the people you serve …the viewing public… begin to start questioning your credibility. If you do it enough, people stop listening to you, because they have lost confidence in your ability to tell one type storm from another. So, when another May 4th , F-4 type tornado comes rolling down the pike, and you start screaming tornado, tornado…who will listen, or believe? I take this very seriously, and it is why, last night…when another Kansas City television station made the irresponsible gesture of telling people in Johnson County that a tornado was going to drop out of the sky…I went a little bit ballistic. (I kept it controlled on the air…but I was more than a little ticked underneath) This was clearly NOT a tornado situation. We knew that, and so did the National Weather Service. It was a storm that produced 60 to 80 mph straight line winds…certainly a dangerous storm, and one that scared a lot of folks. But it was not a 250 mph tornado! When you put out a tornado warning…particularly only two years after a major tornado outbreak…the F-4 t is what comes to the minds of many viewers. So why elevate already scared to people to the level of panic? It’s not something I feel comfortable doing, and neither does the rest of the weather team…or anyone else here at FOX4. We want you to understand, that when we say Tornado Warning…we mean it. And we want you to be confident that we can back it up with good science…not hype.

Mike Thompson
Chief Meteorologist

:clap: :thumb:

The only way you'll see this trend of "Katastrophy Katie's" end, is if people stop watching.

Alarming the general public for no good reason is nothing more than a ratings / cash grab by the local stations.

It especially irritates me when someone like Bryan Busby gets indignant about people calling in and complaining while he breaks in during an NBA basketball resulting in him "apologizing for doing his job".

What alot of these numb nuts don't realize is that viewers aren't complaining about you "doing your job" necessitating an apology - they're complaining that you're scaring the bejesus out of alot of folks and breaking into programming everytime the sky turns grey. People are sick of it and are beyond taking you seriously at this point.

The pendulum has already begun to swing in the other direction, and when another F4 does hit, folks are going to get hurt because they're assuming that Busby, Horner and Leezak are getting their monthly self aggrandizing, face time in for the week / month.

After celebrating Fathers Day with my FIL, I came home and went straight to bed. Glad to see Bob Dole eventually got him taken care of!

Got who taken care of?

Heh, my ex gf dad watches her and actually does what she says.

If there is a bad thunderstorm outside, he will make the family go downstairs and won't let anyone leave or do anything until the storm has passed.

Simply incredible.

She wants me to fall asleep
peeing in her butt

What a pussy (her dad, not you). :LOL:

If the sirens are going off I will go downstairs after I have looked outside of course.

We had the sirens go off 5 times in abotu a 45 min span one day and all it did was get people to go walk outside.

Most people aren't stupid and know when the weather is really bad and when it is just a strong storm.

Then there are those who have Katie fetishes and get scared at the first crack of thunder.

All of these guys are clueless. After the golf ball sized hail we got last night, I am glad our roof/gutters haven't been replaced yet from thr damage that happened in the thunderstorm during the first week of May. That was the same storm that Mike and the NWS both said was also not tornadic, that destroyed homes in Gladstone and NKC. 12 hours later they admitted that it was a tornado.

Which is why a wise person would know that spring\summer in the midwest = thunderstorms.

Thunderstorms= bad weather, hail, lightning, etc.

The midwest is what many for years and years have called "Tornado Alley"

Pet that all together and what do you get? And you didn't even need Katie to tell you!!! :)


so anyone who is either surpirsed by or otherwise shocked by stormy, tornadic weather in KC April-July has a screw loose in the first place.

Secondly anyone who is surprised and or shocked by weather peeps on tv not being right about shit also has a screw loose.

Don't know if anyone remembers Dave Dusik, a former weatherman on Channel 9 in the 80's. He did a "Chicken Little" coverage of a storm that tracked from Emporia, KS to Mexico, MO, that produced nothing-- of which he evidently did a lot after having been let go.

See post #3.5.