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7:01
We're about to get underway. Cathy Wurzer is doing a soundcheck. The people have filed in and we have a pretty good crowd here tonight. "This is not a time to be shy," Wurz says. You too.
7:01
7:02
This was the early crowd which had plenty of time to watch the passing weather outside the huge windows of the UBS forum.
7:03
As we chat, a fairly severe line of storms appears to be crossing I-35W just north of here. Cathy just drove down from Duluth, where she was doing a talk about her book. And she'll have to get up early to do Morning Edition. What a trooper!
7:04
It was on this date in 1965 that the tornadoes struck Fridley.
7:05
It was Memorial Day last year that the tornado struck Hugo. Paul Huttner says what we learned from that storm is we should stay inside until the weather passes, and not come out when the sirens stop. There is no "all clear" warning in Minnesota.
7:07
I thought one of our guests just said there was no picture of the tornado in Hugo. But a 12 year old took a picture of it.
Find it here
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7:08
Is it the media's fault that people go out into the weather, what with our asking for pictures and all?
"Yes," Paul Huttner says. He also says we rely, perhaps, too much on the sirens. Craig Edwards says you really need a good weather radio.
7:08
[Comment From Anthony]
im here
7:08
Nice to have you hear, Anthony.
7:09
[Comment From P.Rai]
Here too
7:09
P. Rai! How are you?
P.Rai
, you should all know, is a trained weather spotter.
7:09
[Comment From Anthony]
Thx
7:10
One of the invited experts in the audience says sirens can't be used as an "all clear" signal because people wouldn't know which is which.
7:10
7:10
Here's the radar at the moment along the I35W corridor.
7:12
Paul Huttner says radio/TV people should make it more clear when it's safe in a particular section of the state, when weather has passed.
7:14
Huttner: There are changes in description of hail and what qualifies as severe. It should pare down the amount of "false alarms" he says. But Craig Edwards says some of the warnings are still too vague because they mention counties rather than cities in the path of a storm.
7:15
Matt Friedlein of the National Weather Service (I believe) says they've tried to identify storm locations based on cities but much of the coding that goes with weather radio software is still based on counties.
7:16
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