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Facebook the Storm Chaser
Leave a CommentFebruary 18, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes

FaceBook is a popular social media website, and websites can’t chase storms – but FaceBook might just own hundreds of storm chasers photographs. If you judge chasers by the amount of photos they have collected – FaceBook would have to be at the top of the list.

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Mobile Threat Net Ver. 1.37 Available
Leave a CommentFebruary 17, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Mobile Threat Net Ver. 1.37 Available

Baron Services has released an update to the Mobile Threat Net system. The new version includes these updates/fixes:

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Sirius XM May Get Investment From Liberty to Avert Bankruptcy
Leave a CommentFebruary 17, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Sirius XM May Get Investment From Liberty to Avert Bankruptcy

Before you go and update your XM Weather subscription, you might want to keep on eye on the techie news today concerning Sirius/XM and their possibly bankruptcy filing.

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Sirius XM Radio and Liberty Reach Bailout Agreement
Leave a CommentFebruary 17, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Sirius XM Radio and Liberty Reach Bailout Agreement

If satellite radio died in the woods would anyone be around to hear it? The answer is going to have to wait!

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Tornadoes May Be Possible Today Across South
Leave a CommentFebruary 17, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Tornadoes May Be Possible Today Across South

There is a very slight chance for tornadoes today across parts of the South and along the Gulf Coast. A 55-65 knot westernly flow in the 700-500 mb level combined with steep mid-level lapse rates and increasing moisture will likely create severe storms anywhere from extreme East Texas to points E/NE later today and through tonight. Most likely threats will be severe hail, strong straight line winds, but even though this appears to be an MCS event, any storms that develop will have a small potential for tornadoes.

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Incredible Photos of the Edmond, OK Tornado!
Leave a CommentFebruary 11, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Incredible Photos of the Edmond, OK Tornado!

Exclusive: New photos of the Edmond Tornado from February 10, 2009, these were taken by Kate Meyer in Oklahoma City. Special thanks to Kate and Sarah Kogler (StormTours.com Meteorologist) for these incredible photographs.

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Lone Grove, Oklahoma Damage Survey Results – EF4 Tornado
Leave a CommentFebruary 11, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Lone Grove, Oklahoma Damage Survey Results – EF4 Tornado

Preliminary survey results are in for the February 10, 2009 tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. The damage survey on the Lone Grove tornado indicated the tornado reached EF4 strength with maximum wind speeds in the 165-200 mph range. The tornado’s widest path was measured at ½ mile wide at times.

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Preliminary Tornado Damage Survey for Edmond Tornado
Leave a CommentFebruary 11, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Preliminary Tornado Damage Survey for Edmond Tornado

Damage survey results are also in their final stages for the Edmond tornado. The preliminary data indicates that there were 3 tornadoes. The first tornado had the shortest life of the three and struck NW of Bethany, it travelled ¾ of a mile and was about 30 yards wide and did EF1 damage.

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Tornado Hits Edmond, OK Area
Leave a CommentFebruary 10, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Tornado Hits Edmond, OK Area

Oklahoma’s first tornado of 2009 happened at approximately 3:05 p.m. today and traveled along the North side of the Oklahoma City metro, it was reported to have lasted 10 minutes and did “significant damage” near Edmond.

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Oklahoma Tornado Update
Leave a CommentFebruary 10, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Oklahoma Tornado Update

Reports just coming in that there have been three tornado related fatalities in Lone Grove, Oklahoma, probably happening at about the time of the radar image below.

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A storm chaser’s opinion on live tornado streaming video
Leave a CommentFebruary 10, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes

Recently a few new services have been made available for live streaming video, and some of them are offering special deals for tour operators.

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Storm Chasers might find use for new Google Service
Leave a CommentFebruary 04, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes

Google just released a new service called Google Latitude that allows people to keep track of one another using their mobile phone, or PC. The service appears to be a play upon popular microblogging services such as Twitter, but with more functionality.

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Kentucky Governor asks for “Major Disaster Declaration”.
Leave a CommentFebruary 02, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes

Kentucky’s governor will ask President Obama on Monday to speed up federal aid dollars as costs spiral past $45 million for emergency work to restore power, hand out water and food and clear debris across the state hit hard by an icy winter storm last week.

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England Receives Most Snow in 18 Years
Leave a CommentFebruary 02, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
England Receives Most Snow in 18 Years

British authorities could run out of salt to grit roads within three or four days as Britain faces a week of paralysis after the heaviest snow for at least 18 years, it has emerged.

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Kentucky Needs a Bailout
Leave a CommentJanuary 31, 2009 - Posted by Brian Barnes
Kentucky Needs a Bailout

I guess I saw this one coming – Kentucky is one of the hardest hit areas by the recent ice storm that swept over more than a dozen states and took out power to millions of homes across the country.

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