“During Sunday night’s Dallas Cowboys game, we made a mistake by not immediately interrupting the football game with a Tornado Warning,” the station said in a statement. “Although our meteorologists were tracking thunderstorms across the area when the National Weather Service issued a Tornado Warning for Dallas County, we delayed breaking into programming for six minutes. Our meteorologists were also streaming live weather coverage throughout the evening on our site, NBCDFW.com. We also alerted the football audience to our weather live stream throughout the game."
Grant,
What are your comments with regards to this?
https://www.kfvs12.com/authors/grant-dade/
I was chief meteorologist for WEHT Evansville IN for 11 years and have a few memories/stories about cut ins.
Dallas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott has issued a disaster declaration for 16 counties after severe overnight storms including a tornado that battered parts of Dallas. His declaration Monday makes state resources available to local officials, plus waives certain regulations to allow utilities to bring in out-of-state resources.
"By issuing this declaration, Texas is providing local officials with the resources they need to quickly respond and recover from this storm," said Governor Abbott. "My heart goes out to the Texans impacted by this severe weather, and the people of Texas can rest assured that the state will do everything it can to assist those affected by these horrific storms."
18 was the first year in history without a violent tornado anywhere in the US.
2019 has been a different story, mainly because of the severe storm and flooding outbreak in the Spring:
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/2019_annual_summary.html#
These are all severe weather reports below:
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I can say we would have been on the air. The scariest thing for me would be having this happen on the Super Bowl. We get it on a three year rotation and I know one year we will have a cool season tornado event. But if it were to happen, we will go on the air. I hope one day technology will improve to where our emergency broadcast signal would go out like when you are alerted on an app, only if you are in the warning polygon. That way only those in harms way would have their programming interrupted.
Interesting fact is last year we had a tornado warning during March Madness when Duke was playing. We had to cover up that game for quite sometime. We got lots of hate emails and I would get death threats, yes it's that crazy. But when we looked at rentrac which tracts ratings every fifteen minutes our rating went up as we covered the tornado and dropped when we went back to the game.
My biggest fear from Sunday night was that someone in Dallas would have died and was watching the Cowboys Game and would not know it was about to hit their house. You can only get so much information from a crawl, it can't show you the tornado on the ground and follow it to you.
This graph is only updated thru August 8th but we were at the 75th percentile at that time for ALL tornadoes. I think this is more tornadoes than all of last year, with just over half the year past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornadoes_of_2019#/media/File:2019_United_States_tornado_count.png
Actually, it's a great deal more than all of 2018, which was close to the least tornadoes and none of them violent tornadoes!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornadoes_of_2018#/media/File:2018_United_States_tornado_count.png
