{"id":11253,"date":"2025-07-08T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/?p=11253"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:31:30","slug":"weatherbrains-1016-a-time-for-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/?p=11253","title":{"rendered":"WeatherBrains 1016:  A Time For Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Episode 1016\" href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/weatherbrains\/wb070725.mp3\">WeatherBrains Episode 1016<\/a> is now online (July 7th, 2025). If you are crazy about weather, this is <strong>THE<\/strong> podcast for you!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: medium;\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/37334925\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/87A93A\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/download\/yes\/font-color\/FFFFFF\" width=\"100%\" height=\"192\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T-mT7v6tjc0?si=TvM7DwGAtDbL2J37\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s episode comes on the heels of another horrific weather tragedy; a Texas hill country flash flooding event that killed at least 100 people. \u00a0 This was a flash flood that we all fear &#8211; extreme rainfall, rugged terrain, and was a nocturnal event overnight on a holiday weekend. \u00a0It&#8217;s a home-grown show among our panelists, and it&#8217;s a critical topic about a historical weather event.<\/p>\n<p>Our email officer Jen is continuing to handle the incoming messages from our listeners. Reach us here: email@weatherbrains.com.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1978 Texas Flash Flood\/Tropical Storm Amelia (03:00)<\/li>\n<li>What makes the Hill Country so susceptible to flooding? \u00a0(05:00)<\/li>\n<li>WEA Alerts issued before flash flood tragedy (12:00)<\/li>\n<li>Prior major flash floods that have plagued the U. S. (20:45)<\/li>\n<li>Returning to critical thinking about risk assessment and wading through the madness of social media (25:00)<\/li>\n<li>Exploring the role of NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist and the EMA coordination process (37:25)<\/li>\n<li>Difficulties of warning the public for flooding events\/Call to action (50:30)<\/li>\n<li>Warning fatigue similarities with Severe Thunderstorm\/Flash Flood NWS bulletins (59:25)<\/li>\n<li>Legacy and critical lasting importance radio\/NOAA weather radio communication in an emergency (01:11:30)<\/li>\n<li>Modeling post-event reports from NTSB service assessments (01:15:00)<\/li>\n<li>First ever issued NWS Flash Flood Emergency (01:24:00)<\/li>\n<li>Political activist posts following tragedy\/cloud seeding explained (01:33:45)<\/li>\n<li>The Astronomy Outlook with Tony Rice (01:47:35)<\/li>\n<li>This Week in Tornado History With Jen (No segment this week &#8211; stay tuned!)<\/li>\n<li>E-Mail Segment (No segment this week &#8211; stay tuned!)<\/li>\n<li>and more!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Web Sites from Episode 1016:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samaritan&#8217;s Purse Responding to Deadly Floods in Texas<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/convoyofhope.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Convoy of Hope Response to Texas Deadly Floods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picks of the Week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Aydelott &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JamesAydelottFox23\/posts\/pfbid0r1MAaNqfm2WJcjg79zLnURFYXMJoqdCeCgwLfyUAJwamHbDn2GCApcLSDRREjr3Gl?rdid=IYvDGU1IHe5GkuLL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Aydelott on Facebook: Texas Flood Tragedy Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jen Narramore &#8211; Samaritan&#8217;s Purse\/Convoy of Hope Texas Flood Tragedy Fundraising Campaigns<\/p>\n<p>Rick Smith &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/yaleclimateconnections.org\/2025\/07\/cuts-to-noaa-increase-the-risk-of-deadly-weather-tragedies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuts to NOAA increase the risk of deadly weather tragedies &#8211; Yale Climate Connections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Troy Kimmel &#8211; Foghorn<\/p>\n<p>Kim Klockow-McClain &#8211; Wine Fish<\/p>\n<p>John Gordon &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AFaMbF8VO8I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23rd, 2020 Rainbow Wash Flash Flood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill Murray &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-floods-summer-camp-evacuation-a1cbf5cfa768b0869e5e299b8f7dfccf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How one Texas summer camp successfully evacuated from the floods<\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Spann &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid026Qv3rDxSZ9tT98csL7E5ybdSy6GUNVML6EH9togunwah8LFpMzXAKhGodCPF2Y1Yl&amp;id=100044640960136&amp;_rdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Spann on Facebook: Texas Flood FAQ and answers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WeatherBrains crew includes your host, James Spann, plus other notable geeks like Troy Kimmel, Bill Murray, Rick Smith, James Aydelott, Jen Narramore, John Gordon, and Dr. Kim Klockow-McClain. They bring together a wealth of weather knowledge and experience for another fascinating podcast about weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WeatherBrains Episode 1016 is now online (July 7th, 2025). If you are crazy about weather, this is THE podcast for you! Tonight&#8217;s episode comes on the heels of another horrific weather tragedy; a Texas hill country flash flooding event that killed at least 100 people. \u00a0 This was a flash flood that we all fear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11254,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11253\/revisions\/11254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weatherbrains.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}