This past Saturday KCBD along with the Texas Tech Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society sponsored a Severe Weather Awareness Day at the Science Spectrum in Lubbock, TX to round out Severe Weather Awareness Week in Texas.
We brought our chase vehicles out to represent the TV station since we chase for them giving everyone a chance to see the equipment up close and ask lots of questions. We had a great time!
There many exhibits demonstrating all sorts of weather phenomena including a crazy lightning machine that scared the heck out of me when it decided to finally spark! Steve Miller, who had come down to check things out, got quite a laugh out of me jumping about 5 feet from that! It was MUCH louder than I was expecting! Now if I can just figure out how to make one of my own! Steve got to met many of the station folks, as well as the NWS guys. We are getting him integrated well in to west Texas weather culture! LO
All of the station mets were out for the day too and we ended the day with me taking Steve for a nickel tour of the TV station and he got to see a live newscast. We later grabbed Carey Allen after he was done and had some good steak at Golden Corral!
Below our mets who I am pleased to work with when severe weather threatens our area, left to right in the black shirts are John Robison, Carey Allen, and Steve Divine.
I wrote a much more in depth article for the main website, if you want to read more and see lots more pics, you can find it here.
I love the pics Steve caught of that boy who is absolutely mesmerized. Great coverage, David.
That was a real blast! I hope they have another one next year!
Great write up, man.