How do they really know how far the stuff was carried by the storm?
When something travels more than a mile into an area where people don’t recognize the debris as coming from a certain person’s house, then the return addresses on letters, and names on checks and deeds identifies the owner. If the tornado destroyed just one golf course, and the flag from a putting green is found 50 miles away, one would have to assume that the flag and the golf course are a match. • I live in an area where there are a lot of tornado warnings, but not that many tornadoes actually touch down. Why do we get so many warnings? Most “unrealized” warnings are caused by the appearance of a mesocyclone on Doppler radar. If a mesoscyclone forms inside a thunderstorm, then the thunderstorm clearly has tornadic potential, and warnings will be issued. Sometimes they are called “radar based warnings” as opposed to “spotter based warnings”, which involve a visible funnel. This is one of the more thankless jobs that NWS meteorologists do. If they issue a warning based on doppler radar
