Reasons you don’t say there won’t be tornadoes in April

Here is a picture from North Carolina

Here’s another one, too…

And later, this…

Or this video during the tornado warning – though, it doesn’t show a tornado on the ground.

That is from the afternoon of 4/25/14.

In the morning, Al Roker said this.

I have no vendetta against Al Roker. I think he does a fine job and seems to be a great and fun guy. But this is a lesson to young TV meteorologists.

Never. EVER. EVER! Say there isn’t the threat for tornadoes during a severe weather event in April. Especially when the Storm Prediction Center – and those guys know a lot – circle the area with a five-percent risk.

By the way, here is a screenshot from the morning from the SPC.

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Nick Lilja

Nick is former television meteorologist with stints in Amarillo and Hattiesburg. During his time in Hattiesburg, he was also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is a graduate of both Oregon State and Syracuse University that now calls Houston home. Now that he is retired from TV, he maintains this blog in his spare time.