AccuWeather storm chasers played a vital part in keeping viewers safe during a very active spring. Our team shares why storm chasers are a pivotal role in our severe weather coverage.
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00:00There you go. Live look. Tornado emergency. Tornado on the ground.
00:03Our experts in the field are storm chasers.
00:06Tony Lawbeck, who not only reported tornadoes on the ground,
00:11he reported it live on the AccuWeather network.
00:13That's meteorologist and storm chaser Tony Lawbeck's camera lens live.
00:17It's so important that we have storm chasers on the ground.
00:19There's actually a second circulation right off in the back corner here.
00:23So we've actually got two areas of circulation.
00:25My job is to get that weather live on TV
00:28so that they can safely stay at home, see that weather on TV,
00:31and when they hear their town name and the path of that storm,
00:34they know immediately they need to take shelter.
00:37AccuWeather has the proven most accurate severe weather warnings.
00:40AccuWeather storm warning meteorologists issued life-saving warnings,
00:46oftentimes when there was no warning from the government and from any other known source.
00:51We're starting to see pea to marble-sized hail.
00:54Our team of professional, well-experienced storm chasers
00:57know how to safely get into position to document and report on severe weather as it's happening,
01:03and we can provide ground truth immediately, faster than any technology can detect,
01:07and let people know in real time of these threats many times before the warnings even go out.
01:13Expert meteorologists use radar, satellite, and other tools to detect many severe weather threats.
01:19Additionally, when a tornado is visually confirmed and reported by a professional storm chaser
01:24or a trained storm spotter,
01:26that can provide valuable additional information to meteorologists in issuing severe weather warnings.
01:32This is on the ground. You are seeing this live, folks.
01:35We can see instantaneously the nature of the damage, the intensity.
01:39Sometimes we'll see live footage of a storm crossing a road,
01:43and then we'll see that live feed of the storm chaser's dash camera
01:47showing us what happened right there within seconds of it occurring.
01:51We're going to be pulling up on some damage here.
01:53Getting that info out immediately is crucial to keeping people safe,
01:57and that's the mission here at AccuWeather.
01:59And when you have the best people in the field working with the best people in the studio,
02:03you're going to get the best coverage, and that's what it's all about.
02:07There are a million places where you can get weather information,
02:10but there is nothing like what we do here at AccuWeather
02:13because we have the best people in the best places, period.
02:16And that's the AccuWeather Advantage.