NATIONAL WEATHER OUTLOOK

0-2: Low3-5: Moderate6-7: High8-10: Very High11+: Extreme

The higher the UVindex, the higher theneed for eye and skin

protection.

Full Pool Current ChangeLake Barkley 361 355.70 +0.10Kentucky Lake (Above) 361 355.60 +0.10Kentucky Lake (Below) ---- 304.40 -0.70Lake Barkley Water Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . .65ºKentucky Lake Water Temperature . . . . . . . . . . .65º

Weather

SUN AND MOON

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RIVER STAGES

Full4/6

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AREA FORECAST POLLEN

FORECAST UV INDEX

Lake and river levels are in feet. Change is over the past 24 hrs.

Sunrise today . . . . . . . . . . .6:35 a.m.Sunset tonight . . . . . . . . . .7:13 p.m.Moonrise today . . . . . . . . . .1:50 p.m.Moonset tonight . . . . . . . . .3:04 a.m.

Temperatures (Yesterday)

High Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73Low Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58Normal High/Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65/41Record High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84 in 1981Record Low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 in 1969

Precipitation (Yesterday)

24 hours through 4 p.m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00"Month to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.82"Normal Month to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4.26"

Sebree84/63

Madisonville86/64 Central City

84/62

Providence85/63

Morganfield84/63

Owensboro83/63

Cadiz85/63

Statistics through 4 p.m. yesterday reported from Owensboro

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Today: Mostly sunny to partly cloudyand very warm with highs in the midto upper 80s.

Tonight: Mostly clear skies and mildwith lows in the lower 60s.

Tomorrow: Mostly sunny and verywarm. High in the upper 80s.

Flood Stage Current ChangeOhio River/NewburghUpper 38 10.50 0.00Lower 38 22.30 -1.20

Flood Stage Current ChangeGreen River/CalhounUpper 23 11.00 -0.13Lower 23 12.20 0.00

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

What is the coldest recorded temperaturein the United States?Answer: Prospect Creek, Alaska was -80 degrees on Jan.23, 1971.

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Today is the 92nd day of 2012 and the 13th day ofspring.TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1945, U.S. troops landed onthe Japanese island of Okinawa.In 1960, TIROS-1, the first weather satellite, waslaunched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.In 1970, President Richard Nixon signed a bill thatbanned cigarette ads on radio and TV.In 1987, President Ronald Reagan gave his firstspeech in response to the AIDS epidemic.TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), German political leader; Edmond Rostand(1868-1918), playwright; Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), composer; Milan Kundera (1929- ), writer;Debbie Reynolds (1932- ), actress; Ali MacGraw (1938-), actress; Samuel Alito (1950- ), Supreme Court justice;Rachel Maddow (1973- ), TV personality.TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1973, veteran Boston CelticJohn Havlicek scored a career-high 54 points againstthe Atlanta Hawks, setting a Celtic playoff record.TODAY'S FACT: The United Nations estimated therewere 33.3 million people worldwide living with HIV as ofDecember 2009.

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A6 THE MESSENGER, Sunday, April 1, 2012

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Even expert storm chases would have struggled to decipher the dif ference between the tornado warn-ings sent last May before severe weather hit Joplin and, a few days later, head-ed again toward downtown Kansas City.

The first tornado was a massive EF-5 twister that killed 161 people as it wiped out a huge chunk of the

southwest Missouri com-munity. The second storm caused only minor damage when two weak tornadoes struck in the Kansas City suburbs.

In both cases, the warn-ings were harbingers of touchdowns. But three out of every four times the National Weather Ser vice issues a formal tornado warning, there isn’t one. The result is a “cry wolf” phenomenon that’s dulled the ef fectiveness of torna-

do warnings, and one the weather ser vice hopes to solve with what amounts to a scare tactic.

In a test that starts Mon-day, five weather ser vice offices in Kansas and Mis-souri will use words such as “mass devastation,” ‘’unsur-vivable” and “catastrophic” in a new kind of warning that’s based on the sever-ity of a storm’s expected impact. The goal is to more effectively communicate the dangers of an approaching

storm so people understand the risks they’re about to face.

“We’d like to think that as soon as we say there is a tornado warning, every-one would run to the base-ment,” said Ken Harding, a weather service of ficial in Kansas City. “That’s not how it is. They will channel flip, look out the window or call neighbors. A lot of times people don’t react until they see it.”

The system being tested

will create two tiers of warn-ings for thunderstorms and three tiers for tornadoes, each based on severity. A research team in North Car-olina will analyze the results of the experiment, which runs through late fall, and help the weather ser vice decide whether to expand the new warnings to other parts of the country.

Laura Myer, a social sci-ence research professor at Mississippi State University, said people she has inter-

viewed want more advance warning about a potential tornado strike and more information on the specific locations where the storms are expected to hit.

“We have found in Mis-sissippi and Alabama and various other Souther n states that people feel they would constantly be going to a shelter if they heeded every tornado warning,” she said. “For people in mobile homes, that’s the craziest thing.

New tornado warnings aim to scareBY BILL DRAPERASSOCIATED PRESS

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