Reproduced from Take-Off,
the Tinker Air Force Base Newspaper


August 3, 1951
Magazine Article Draws Praise

Captain Miller and Colonel Fawbush like Post article.

       It was a good story!
       That is the joint opinion of Lt. Col. E. J. Fawbush and Capt. Robert C. Miller, weather officers extraordinary; who are in charge of the Severe Weather Warning center operated by the Tinker-based 2060th Mobile Weather squadron. The reference was to Pat McDermott's article entitled "Flash-Tornado Warning," which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post last week.
       "After reading the article I'm inclined to believe Miss McDermott must be a weather observer, herself," grinned Captain Miller. "What makes the whole thing so unusual is that she never came here for an interview. The whole thing was handled by correspondence," he added.
       It's good that this unusual writer did an unusual story and its principal subjects are two unusual weather men, for Colonel Fawbush and Captain Miller are just that.
       Out of more than 200 predictions based on their special weather formula, the Fawbush-Miller weather team has been 90 percent correct. When asked how they got started on their theory, Colonel Fawbush said, "It was like Topsy. It just grew and grew and grew." As for that, these officers deserve the Congressional medal plus, plus and plus, because they dared to follow through.
       But there's one thing Miss McDermott failed to mention. Tinker has the only Severe Storm Warning center in the world. It is located in a modest 25x70 frame building in the heart of the military area. Here is where the two officers make their studies and prepare severe weather data for the U. S. Air Force.

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