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While this technology is reliable, it’s simply no substitute for trained human eyes. Author: Skot Covert Updated: 8:16 AM CDT April 15, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Every year hundreds of severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings are issued by the National Weather Service.
These warnings, sent as push alerts to cell phones or scrolled at the bottom of televisions, are calls to action for people to seek shelter from imminent severe weather. Often these warnings are issued based upon data collected by a network of doppler radars.
While this technology is reliable, it’s simply no substitute for trained human eyes, and that’s why the National Weather Service in North Little Rock isn’t letting COVID-19 stop it from training storm spotters.
The afternoon thunderstorms that rolled over the Twin Lakes Area on Friday left more than a thousand North Arkansas Electic and Entergy of Arkansas customers without power.
The stong-yet-brief storm system also produced 60-mph winds and large hail, the National Weather Service in North Little Rock said.
A second wave of thunderstorms is expected to cross the the state later tonight, Dennis Cavanaugh with the NWS said.
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