University Dally Kansan / Fridav. March 6, 1987
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People best at spotting tornadoes
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
Even the most sensitive radar cannot spot at least 50 percent of all tornadoes, so effective warning depends on the alertness of human spotters, a meteorologist for the Topeka National Weather Service said last night.
"Our only source of information about where a tornado is going to occur is our radar and our spotsters. And our radar doesn't show all tornadoes, but it shows the meteorologist, told about 80 people at a workshop on how to spot tornadoes.
The workshop, which included a presentation and conducted at Nichols College East Campus.
Radars are better at spotting larger tornadoes and are necessary for spotting tornadoes whenever visibility is poor. But most tornadoes occur between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m., when they are detected by sight, Schurr said.
The tornado season is from March to June, said, although most occur after March.
All tornadoes are dangerous, regardless of their size. Small ones sometimes create greater damage than large ones, especially if they occur in areas where people do not expect them.
The key to safety is simply effective warning, Schurr said.
The National Weather Service issues a severe thunderstorm warning if it spots winds traveling at a speed of 60 mph or higher, or if the storm produces hailstones larger than three-fourths of an inch in diameter, or about the size of a penny.
Other signs of an approaching tornado are the presence of a rain-free area in a thunderstorm and a cloud that rains from that cloud that says toward the ground.
That section is called the wall cloud All tornadoes are born in this area.
Out of the wall cloud, a funnel cloud appears and reaches toward the ground. Once the wind currents from the storm move toward the ground, the tornado is fully developed.
One difficulty with providing effective tornado warning is that most tornadoes strike and disappear in about five minutes.
"By the time the spitter sees it and informs the sheriff's office and they call us, the tornado may be back in the clouds," Schurr said.
He said the tornadoes that had created the most devastation recently had all occurred in regions where tornadoes were rare.
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By a Kansan reporter
Bob Kittell, an instructor at the Memory Improvement Seminar, teaches visualizing with mental pictures.
More than 100 students sat with their eyes closed last night in the Regency Room of the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive. But they weren't sleeping.
The students were imagining mental pictures of airplanes sprouting trees, envelopes dangling from trees and earrings bursting from envelopes. By visualizing bizarre images, they found it easier to remember a sequence of items.
That strategy, the "link system," was one of the skills Bob Kittell, presenter of the Memory Improvement Seminar, taught students.
He told them to visualize a vivid picture of only two items and to see them interacting. By doing so, the students should be able to remember the sequence of items, Kittell said.
Kittell and his associates attracted students in fraternities some times to the $25 semester payments during their dinner hours.
The students had mixed reactions after listening to Kittell's presentation.
Steve Wanamaker, Overland Park junior, said, "I think it might take some time, but it will eventually be useful."
"I'll give it a try. For twenty-five bucks, I'll give it a try."
But Beth Hogerty, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said she was going to ask for her money back and learn what she didn't already know she did.
"As far as I'm concerned, they were the techniques I usually use," Hogerty said.
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