Re: [Phys-l] About the "why" and "how questins."

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

Might they be referring to the damaging gust fronts that are often associated with the super-cell thunderstorms that tornados are spawned from?

Bob at PC

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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of brian whatcott [betwys1@sbcglobal.net]
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Subject: Re: [Phys-l] About the "why" and "how questins."

Weasel words aside, it's interesting to recall that here in Tornado
Alley (SW Oklahoma)
that broadcasters are adjured to avoid the word tornado where possible.
We end up
  with news reports of damaging "straight-line winds" (sic).

There is an underlying justification: someone deduced that more
accidents were being
  caused by people taking steps to avoid suspected" tornadoes" than were
being injured
  by those particular weather events.

Brian W

On 12/21/2010 9:03 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> Right!   Warnings of Meteorite Impacts are also a  no, no.
>
> bc
>
> p.s. last "I heard", no such thing as AMI.
>
>
> On 2010, Dec 21, , at 08:37, John Mallinckrodt wrote:
>
> > In any event am I correct in understanding that you would have us, under *no* circumstances, predict catastrophe?

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