Sunday, April 18, 1999
Weather Service wants meeting with TV meteorologists
BY JOHN KIESEWETTER
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The National Weather Service wants to call an unprecedented meeting of Cincinnati TV meteorologists to compare notes on the April 9 tornado radar reports.
“I'd like to get them all together and show them what we were seeing and share information,” says Ken Haydu, meteorologist in charge of the Wilmington office, which serves Greater Cincinnati.
“It (the tornado) wasn't that clear-cut for us either,” he says.
Mr. Haydu says he won't specifically mention the accuracy of “street-mapping” at the meeting, to be held in four to six weeks. “But some of these other issues could come up” from the TV meteorologists, he says.
A joint meeting of local TV meteorologists has never occurred in the 22-year tenure of Channel 12 meteorologist Steve Horstmeyer, the city's veteran TV weatherman.
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