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| | Warning and Verification Ideas |
 | | After around 200 storm chases in 11 years, and witnessing sustained surface winds analyzed at up to 120 mph in the outer eyewall of Hurricane Andrew (based on a map by Powell and Houston, 1996), I can't claim to estimate consistently and reliably a gust was 60 mph (severe) versus 55 (non-severe). |
 | | The NWS warning and verification system directly affects my career, my main hobby (storm chasing), and the personal safety of my family and every citizen in the U.S. I have a vested interest in doing my best to ensure that this system optimally serves taxpayers, which is the motivation behind this effort. |
 | | In other CWAs [county warning areas], too, there is a mayor, sheriff, EM, legislator, Chamber of Commerce president or other "VIP" upset that his area lost a legacy WSO in modernization, or that a tree once fell on a shiny new Lexus he bought for his daughter, without a warning. |
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