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• Guest: Bill Murray, WeatherBrains Co-Host

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Our Guest: Bill Murray, Co-Host on the WeatherBrains

Bill did television weather for fun at the CBS affiliate in Birmingham for five years in the early 90s and created and sold a weather company called The Weather Source. His group then formed The Weather Company (now The Weather Factory) in 1998 for which he has served as President since then.  Bill also owns a hotel management company that manages 34 hotels across the country from New Mexico to Florida.

Bill has been a co-host on the WeatherBrains since it began back in 2006.

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On May 31 2013 a very well forecast tornado event happened outside Oklahoma City near the community of El Reno. This day was special and tragic at the same time. Not only was this the largest tornado ever recorded, but due to its forecastability and proximity to Norman Oklahoma, it was also the most researched and documented tornado in history.

Sadly, the day took a tragic turn when 9 people were killed, including 4 storm chasers. Three of these chasers were Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young who made up the highly respected TWISTEX team. By anyones standards Tim Samaras would have been considered as a safe and experienced chaser. NOBODY expected Tim to be among the first storm chasers killed while chasing. It was unfathomable.

As mentioned, the forecast was consistent and quite scary. In fact, the Storm Prediction Center in Norman Oklahoma did such an amazing job of forecasting that when we looked at the models the day before and looked at the SPC’s forecast, we put a pin in the map at El Reno and actually spent the night prior to the tornado in a motel in the town.

The tornado ended up being 2.6 miles wide at its peak and there were radar indicated winds which peaked at almost 300 MILES PER Hour. Crazy. Officially the tornado was given a hotly debated rating of EF3 since after all, the EF scale is a measure of damage and not wind speed. Either way it was intense, dangerous and a day that none of us will ever forget.

For this episode, we have brought together everyone who was in our truck that day including the director of photography Peter Slack who was shooting the entire time and documenting our experience with El Reno and what could easily have been the end of our lives.

Here is how this commentary is going to work. We are going to play the video that Peter shot that day from the back seat of Flash, the Tornado Truck. I will stop the video at key decision making points and we will discuss our thoughts, and share some insight as to how and why we made the decisions we did. Facilitating the process will be our good friend Nick Schenher (NicktheBody) who was watching all of this unfold on our live stream. So if you would like to watch the video and see what we are seeing during this commentary, head on over to YouTube and visit my YouTube page by searching for Greg Johnson Tornado Hunter. You will find the El Reno video and you can watch and pause when needed.

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• Guests: Tornado Hunters - Greg Johnson, Ricky Forbes, Nick Shenher

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Our Guests: Tornado Hunters - Greg Johnson, Ricky Forbes, Nick Schenher

The Tornado Hunters have a television series, chasing tours and a new podcast heard right here on the Storm Front Freaks Network titled El Ninos.  The Tornado Hunters are:

Greg Johnson- One of North America's top professional storm-chasers and serve weather experts.  He is also an accomplished photographer, speaker and workshop leader.

Ricky Forbes- Driver for the Tornado Hunters and also an accomplished web designer, snowboard coach, dirt biker, snowmobiler, and overall an adventure-seeking adrenaline junkie.

Nick Schenher- The driver and host for The Tornado Hunters storm chasing tours.  Nick has been chasing for over a decade.

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Next Episode will be with Weather Brains original, Bill Murray.  Recording live for Patreon.com/stormfrontfreaks members on Thursday, May 13th at 9pmET/8pmCT and available on all podcast players Sunday, May 16th.

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Our Guest: Alex Zerbe

Formerly of the award-winning duo Brothers from Different Mothers, Zerbe is a Hacky Sack World Champion, was voted The Pacific Northwest’s Funniest Prop Comic and is a two-time Guinness World Record holder. He has performed everywhere from cruise ships and comedy clubs to prime-time television in three countries, including “Americas Got Talent!” and “Last Comic Standing. As well the Zaniac is the survivor of a lightning strike and some say that is where he got his awesome powers! Alex, welcome to El Ninos, the Tornado Hunters Podcast.

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• Guest: McCall Vrydaghs, Chief Meteorologist - WHIO-TV Dayton, OH

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Our Guest: McCall Vrydaghs

McCall Vrydaghs was named Chief Meteorologist at Dayton Ohio’s WHIO-TV in November 2018. Since 2012, she has covered a variety of weather events in the Miami Valley including the 100-year-flood on I-70 in 2014, and the tornado outbreak of 2016. Most notably, on Memorial Day 2019, she tracked 15 tornadoes for nearly 4 hours as they ripped across the Miami Valley, included three EF3 tornadoes and one devastating EF4.  Vrydaghs earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Meteorology from SUNY Oswego.

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Our Next Episode

Next Episode will be with The Tornado Hunters.  Fellow co-host, Greg Johnson, brings his chasing partners and co-stars of the TV series Ricky Forbes and Chris Chittick.  Recording Episode 130 live on a special day of Monday 4/26/21 at 9pmET/8pmCT with the podcast available to download Sunday 5/2/21.

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Our Guest: Chris Bukowski

Chris Bukowski was a contestant on the 8th season of The Bachelorette. He returned in the 3rd season of Bachelor Pad where he was the runner-up. He returned for, and won, the 6th season of Bachelor in Paradise. He is the contestant from Bachelor Nation with the most appearances.

And now that we have the Bachelor stuff out of the way, Chris is also a business owner with three restaurants and a digital marketing agency. He into the world of Crypto Currency. He is a closet storm chaser who grew up in Illinois.

Looks like Gerrard Butler.

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Alex Zerbe who is a 2-time Guiness world record holder. Alex is a prop comedian who has been on America’s Got Talent and Last Comic Standing. He was voted Seattle’s 3rd best air guitarist and he is a survivor of a lightning strike. This episode will be available on April 25.

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Our Guests: Tornado Trackers

Tornado Trackers was founded in May 2013 when three friends created a joint twitter account to keep friends and family updated on chases. 

Since then, all three have worked together to maintain Tornado Trackers, both in the field and through social media.  Their footage has been broadcast on many networks including ABC, NBC, CBS, The Weather Channel, CNN and National Geographic.  They've also recently released the Tornado Trackers Podcast.

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Next Episode will be with McCall Vrydaghs, Chief Meteorologist at WHIO-TV in Dayton, OH to discuss Memorial Day 2019 Tornado Outbreak.  Recording Episode 129 live on Thursday 4/15/21 with the podcast available to download Sunday 4/18/21.

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• Opening Music: Brett Epstein

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• National Weather Podcast Month

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Our Guest: Janice Dean

Janice Dean joined Fox Network in January 2004.  She is the Senior Meteorologist for Fox News and can be seen weekday mornings on Fox & Friends.  

Inducted into the Punxsutawney Meteorologist Hall of Fame in 2017, she has also authored a series of children’s books titled “Freddy the Frogcaster”, her New York Time Best Selling autobiography, "Mostly Sunny" and just released a new book of inspiring stories titled "Make Your Own Sunshine". 

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Next Episode will be with the Tornado Trackers (Gabe, Jeremy and Jeff).  Recording Episode 128 live on Thursday 4/1/21 with the podcast available to download Sunday 4/4/21.

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Our Guest: Josh Morgerman

Joshua Morgerman is an American businessman, storm chaser, and star of the Hurricane Man series.  Best known for his multitude of tropical cyclone chases, his storm chasing career began in 1991.  With no formal education in meteorology, all his experience comes from the chases. Morgerman has penetrated the inner cores of over 55 hurricanes and has been in 38 hurricane eyes.

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• Twitter:  @icyclone

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• Jen - New Zealand Tsunami

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Next Episode will be with Senior Meteorologist of FOX News, Janice Dean.  Recording Episode 127 live on Thursday 3/18/21 with the podcast available to download Sunday 3/21/21.

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• Opening Music: Brett Epstein