Small town I grew up in just got devastated by a tornado

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That sucks.

My son is starting his Atmospheric Sciences with weather focus undergrad at CU next fall. His goal, probably at the MS or PhD level, is extreme weather event research and analysis to hopefully develop better forecasting and mitigation techniques. I am sure he will be in Norman for part of that journey.

Forecasting has come a long way from watching livestock gather up before a storm centuries ago. Watching weather channel again, they were giving warnings ahead of the storm to towns in the path ‘real time’ with computer simulations of wind currents at 30,000 ft. Amazing technology!
On a side note, and being an aviation geek, here is a picture of a 1960 vintage USAF F-101 VooDoo Jet taken at Buckey in 1980. It’s marked Colorado State Univ. Severe Storm Research, The Gray Ghoast.