According to Accuweather.com, "This was the deadliest tornado outbreak in the U.S. since May 2013, when a massive and devastating tornado killed 24 people in Moore, Oklahoma." In one case, the National Weather Service even issued a rare tornado emergency because of expected damage from a "confirmed large and destructive tornado." As a meteorologist and a scientist who pays close attention to weather and the risk messaging, there are four things about this outbreak that I noticed. I went back to examine the National Weather Service (NWS) Storm Prediction Center (SPC) outlook two days before the outbreak (graphic below). These points highlight continued focus on the social science aspects (communication, message interpretation, perception, psychology, color schemes, words, tendencies) of the weather forecast continuum.

Source: Forbes March 05, 2019 13:30 UTC