Thank you so much this helped me a lot as a freshman majoring in meteorology!! And yes I would love to see your dad showing us how the NWS operated back in the day!

It's great to see Demone turned out so well after graduating Ridgemont High

This provided a really great insight to so many things! Thanks for the video!

I had a run-in back in March 2012 in Henryville, IN. Probably a good look into. I was working at the jail in Jeffersonville Indiana and the morning forecast called for isolated even storms. By the time I got work, the local news was reporting of a severe storm cell heading north. Probably around 1:30pm. By the time I clocked out around 2pm, all the storm sirens started going off and deputies were running in and out of the jail yelling to get into any dispatch and emergency vehicle available. We jumped in anything we could find. Police cars, ambulance, fire trucks, etc. We were heading north on the highway at least doing 100mph when we got a call from the dispatch telling us that a tornado had dropped at the power of an EF-1. Within a matter of minutes, it was called out as an EF-4 moving fast. We were going down this highway so fast yet the Louisville news and meteorology were already there. We were literally pushing them into the sides of the roads. By the time we got there, the only services that made it in time were their own forces which consist of way too little (only six fire trucks and at least maybe 10 or 11 deputies). Once we made it, the tornado was gone and the sirens were off (We thought the power cut the sirens off) We were all jumping out as search and rescue helping people and getting people onto anything flat so we could give them medical attention. To no avail, the sirens started back up with radios saying another one had formed. If I recall, it was an EF-2. It had reformed where we drove in from. We slid every one under flat slabs of anything we could find while others ran for the underpass and ditches. Softball size hail was just hammering us and destroying all the emergency vehicle windows left and right. Once it passed, the sirens went off again yet we were in a fully clear sky. Turns out it had jumped the farmland while shifting Northwest. EF-1 dropped once city over lasting for at least 3 minutes. The aftermath was basically hell once we got in there. I was there 3 days straight with no sleep. We had the local police, Indiana state police, Kentucky State police, every surrounding county. Plus the Indianapolis and Louisville national guard recovery teams. Took about 3 years for the city to even slightly recover. Took about 5 years for education systems to recover, all the students had to go to surrounding cities over populating every school.

How did you end up in North Carolina, Jim?

Great video guys:) very helpful

Etch in stone back in the day in meteorology, amazing! Just kidding. The Flintstones weather forest.

One day I will beat the meteorologist rankings game to be a Sheriff meteorologist lol

I thought you were still in college

Funny... that’s how Air Force dream sheets work.

Dang you look good for a 50+ year old. I thought you were in the low 30's

Do you learn most of this in college or do you have to learn early in high school to go and get a Meteorology degree

I’m expecting a mobile Gulfport landfall cat 3 landfall with sandy but those areas won’t start getting hurricwne conditions until late tommorow do you agree what do you think

As someone who's never taken any calculus classes, is there still hope of being a Meteorologist?

Are these certifications given by the nws or through the university?

AWIPS tutorial?

Next name is Wilfred the last name

Or God forbid, mispronounce the county name!