Looking back at the science of warning storms in 1985 [Video]

May 31, 1985, will go down as one of the largest and deadliest tornado outbreaks in this country’s history, with a total of 43 tornadoes touching down in Ohio, Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and Ontario.

“It was described as organized, but organized chaos,” says Richard Garuckas, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Cleveland.  

Even today, a severe weather outbreak can be fast-paced and hectic, but the technology and resources available to meteorologists 40 years ago weren’t anything close to what meteorologists have available today.

“You would have had someone who would have been looking in a dark room at the radar scope seeing the …