At 7:23 p.m. on Monday, April 13, an EF-2 tornado formed a few miles west of Ottawa, Kansas. It tracked east through town with peak winds of 125 miles per hour over a path of 7.3 miles. The same supercell produced a second EF-2 near Hillsdale and an EF-1 near Mound City. Three people were hurt in Ottawa. Nobody died.
By Thursday morning, NBC News had a story explaining what happened. The headline: “‘We are missing data’: NWS weather balloon changes scrutinized as tornados hit Midwest.” The piece drew a causal chain from Trump administration cuts, through staggered weather-balloon launches, to a forecast that did not anticipate a tornado threat for the Kansas City area.
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