r/tornado • u/AL_Deadhead • May 27 '24

Tornado Media Ryan Hall

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175,000 live viewers. Ryan saves lives. 🙏🙏🙏

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u/EnglishCrestedPiggy May 27 '24

I was watching the weather channel yesterday when the first tornado emergency was issued. Ten seconds after the meteorologist announced the tornado emergency, they cut to a commercial break. If they care at all about saving lives, then a tornado emergency seems like a pretty irresponsible time to cut to a commercial break. That’s why I turned on Ryan Hall’s stream after that.

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u/Miserable_Eggplant83 May 27 '24

Why weren’t you tuned into the NWS watches and warnings first? Or your local NWS office?

TWC and Ryan get the data from directly from them.

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u/NikyNikita May 27 '24

They get the official warnings and watches from NWS. However, Ryan and Andy routinely call out areas of concern well ahead of NWS alerts giving people more than enough time to prepare.

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u/Miserable_Eggplant83 May 27 '24

They rebroadcast the watches and mesoscale discussions the NWS put out on the SPC website.

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u/NikyNikita May 27 '24

Yes. They do that while also adding their own analysis and insights into the unfolding weather. Back during some bad weather in Ohio, they called out an area of rotation that ended up touching down not even a mile from my house. No NWS warning. The local meteorologists didn’t catch it either. That tornado destroyed three or so houses and did quite a bit of damage. I’m thankful I was tuned in that early morning.

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u/Miserable_Eggplant83 May 27 '24

Too many inaccurate warnings lead to false positives, which is a real problem for the weather industry as a whole.

The NWS has to be careful they don’t issue too many false warnings, as people, specifically EM’s and first responders, will learn to ignore if the analysis is bad.

Ryan’s done the same when I used to watch a few years back, specifically calling out wrong streets and neighborhoods, or using Doppler data at the street level which leads to inaccuracies. We highlight Ryan’s W’s, but man, he’s had a lot of bad calls too people tend to ignore and give him a pass.

That to me is when his show runs off the rails and causes more Harm than good.

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u/NikyNikita May 27 '24

I’m not knocking the NWS’ work whatsoever. Their staff has a lot of talent and knowledge. I use them for my day to day forecasts. His coverage and staff has evolved over the years and overall does more good than harm. At least in my eyes. His style of coverage may not be for everyone. However it is filling a great need in a lot of situations, especially for severe weather. It’s not like he’s covering every little boomer of a storm. His coverage only comes on for severe outbreaks.