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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1350 on: August 09, 2008, 11:01:56 AM »
Dave and Kim doing HD Weekend Now.

...and during the open, Kim was plagued with the can't talk virus (or the can't read a teleprompter virus).

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1351 on: August 11, 2008, 12:12:23 PM »
This is odd

I've got a Tornado Warning in effect, but at the same time there's a Flash Flood Warning, so the scroll shows the Flash Flood Warning (which is never a problem here on LI) right after the Tornado. Shouldn't they only be showing the tornado warning in terms of priorities?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1352 on: August 11, 2008, 12:24:57 PM »
This is odd

I've got a Tornado Warning in effect, but at the same time there's a Flash Flood Warning, so the scroll shows the Flash Flood Warning (which is never a problem here on LI) right after the Tornado. Shouldn't they only be showing the tornado warning in terms of priorities?
Warnings are warnings.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1353 on: August 11, 2008, 12:52:29 PM »
This is odd

I've got a Tornado Warning in effect, but at the same time there's a Flash Flood Warning, so the scroll shows the Flash Flood Warning (which is never a problem here on LI) right after the Tornado. Shouldn't they only be showing the tornado warning in terms of priorities?
Warnings are warnings.
Exactly.

What kills more per year, flooding, or tornadoes. ;)

Still, both are equally as important.  I didn't know that they showed multiple warnings up until a few weeks or so ago.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1354 on: August 11, 2008, 05:09:00 PM »
The warnings alternate, and the newer warning takes precedent. So, if a Tornado Warning was issued at, say, 5:00 and a Flash Flood Warning at 5:05 pm, the FF Warning would interrupt the Tornado Warning, and then they would alternate back and forth.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1355 on: August 11, 2008, 06:01:12 PM »
I see

It was pretty interesting having a Tornado, Severe Thunderstorm, and FF Warning all at the same time to say the least, but unfortunatly the local forecast didn't say "A.. Warning is in effect" when I taped it

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1356 on: August 12, 2008, 01:14:17 PM »
Why in the world are Vivian and Nick using Google Earth's static radar view rather than Titan? Does TWC not know how hideous it looks on air?

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1357 on: August 12, 2008, 01:18:25 PM »
Why in the world are Vivian and Nick using Google Earth's static radar view rather than Titan? Does TWC not know how hideous it looks on air?
Apparently Titan HD is down.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1358 on: August 12, 2008, 01:39:05 PM »
Why in the world are Vivian and Nick using Google Earth's static radar view rather than Titan? Does TWC not know how hideous it looks on air?
Apparently Titan HD is down.
I don't know why they can't just go back to the old NEXRAD radar feeds...
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1359 on: August 12, 2008, 02:19:18 PM »
Nah, the NEXRAD radars are too old. They haven't shown them regularly since 2004. They might not even have them in their system anymore.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1360 on: August 12, 2008, 02:28:10 PM »
Nah, the NEXRAD radars are too old. They haven't shown them regularly since 2004. They might not even have them in their system anymore.
The last time I've seen them being used was in September 2007 during Hurricane Humberto.
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1361 on: August 12, 2008, 02:50:26 PM »
what radar system are they using other than the google based ones? sometime last hour vivan mentioned a torando warning in SE Louisiana, and a radar popped up with no topographic map, just a brown background, with the airport codes.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1362 on: August 12, 2008, 03:24:19 PM »
what radar system are they using other than the google based ones? sometime last hour vivan mentioned a torando warning in SE Louisiana, and a radar popped up with no topographic map, just a brown background, with the airport codes.
That was a program similar to GrLevelX (but it wasn't; that program can not be used on TV).
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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1363 on: August 12, 2008, 03:34:18 PM »
They are having some of the most bizarre outages today.

At 3:29, Trammell/Emergency Feed played, it overran into FFN's slot, they cut to the river :57 id image, then started FFN late.

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Re: General TWC Discussion
« Reply #1364 on: August 12, 2008, 06:47:37 PM »
Billy, I happen to be an owner of GRLevel3.

I have seen Greg Forbes use GRLevel2 Analyst Edition on TWC. I think that program is restricted in some of the TV news markets out there.

Also, does anyone have any video of Titan/skytracker being down?