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Severe Weather Coverage

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dgabenski

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O.K. Boys and Girls, a while back somebody posted a thread about the weather instruments tv stations used when they went off the air or that the cable companies had a camera that panned back and forth between time, temperature, humidity, and so forth. Well back before tv stations had HD Doppler this and VIPIR radar that, when a weather warning was issued, your waetherman would have to tell you himself with just a slide of a thunderstorm cloud or tornado on the screen, with the words thunderstorm warning or tornado warning. I just wondered how your local stations handled weather warnings back in the day i.e. 1960's-70's?
 
when a weather warning
> was issued, your waetherman would have to tell you himself
> with just a slide of a thunderstorm cloud or tornado on the
> screen, with the words thunderstorm warning or tornado
> warning. I just wondered how your local stations handled
> weather warnings back in the day i.e. 1960's-70's?
>

14-WFIE in Evansville used this up until at least the mid-80s as I remember seeing it as a child. Marcia Yockey would occasionally appear on screen after reading the warning. I didn't realize this was an industry-wide usage.
 
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