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Who had the best Tornado coverage today?

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tlyle

Tornados hit the Atlanta area today due to tropical storm Lee. Most all of the local news organizations had wx coverage. Who had the best coverage?

I think that 11alive did well with new meteorologist Mike Francis. I was surprised that he was able to pick up the geography so well given that he has been here only one month.

Of course channel 2 did a decent job also. Only complaint is that they kept calling Bells Ferry Road in Cherokee County- Hwy 205. Bell's Ferry Road lost that designation after Interstate 575 was built back in the middle 80's.
 
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I'd say Channel 2 and Fox 5. When I started watching coverage on 2, CBS Atlanta and 11 Alive were showing tennis.
 
2 seemed a bit short-staffed at first... Karen Minton was flying solo and having to both work the radar, parse warnings, and also present. She was also the sole voice on air and it seemed there wasn't even anyone else in the studio for a bit... she was dang-near choking to death for a good thirty seconds or so before she could get anyone to try to find her some water. Unfortunately this also meant they missed the issuance of a TOR for Troup County and went back to programming... it was only after she got off air, checked the warnings, and found out she missed one that they got back on. When a second meteorologist got in, they were able to tandem up and do much better.

Note this isn't throwing stones... I've done plenty of solo coverage myself and it ain't easy in the least... and I don't even have to worry about cameras.
 
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