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"Nearly 100 tornadoes struck the southern Mississippi River Valley in the last two days and the Storm Prediction Center accurately predicted the location of the tornadoes.The Storm Prediction Center is the branch of the National Weather Service which is tasked with forecasting the risk of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in contiguous United States. The agency issues thunderstorms outlooks, severe thunderstorms discussions and watches.If you have been following our blog over the last week, you know that outlook categories are based primarily on the number of damaging storm reports, not just the severity of the storms. The image above shows the severe storm outlook from the Storm Prediction Center Monday morning, overlay-ed with tornado reports from Monday afternoon. The area highlighted in red was the \"high\" risk area for tornadoes and the red dots represent where tornadoes occurred. You can clearly see the Storm Prediction Center accurately forecasted the location of tornadoes on Monday.Not only did the Storm Prediction Center provide advanced warning to the public in their severe thunderstorm forecast for Monday, their forecast for Sunday was also very accurate. Click on the related content to compare the severe weather outlook for Sunday from the Storm Prediction Center to verified storm reports on Sunday.With severe storm outlooks being provided by the Storm Prediction Center days in advance and watches being issued hours in advance, there is no reason why severe storms should catch people by surprise.Oklahoma residents can stay severe weather away by not only watching local weather forecasting on KOCO-TV, but also on KOCO.com."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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