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I think the proudest moment I ever had in
my life was after the May 3rd 1999 tornado.

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When I saw the system work. When I saw
the warnings 20, 30 minutes in advance.

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Multiple tornadoes in Oklahoma using
the science that we at NSSL did in

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an operational way and then
communicating the results of that

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science to the media because most of the
people got their information from radio,

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television, in addition to NOAA
weather radio. But when you have

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helicopters up showing what's happening
on the ground, giving people lead time

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block by block, street by street. It's not
going to get any better than that.

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But it was our research - our research with
the Doppler radars 20, 25 years ago

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that made that happen.