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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1969: The Clovis Civil Defense Board was meeting with area law enforcement officials to consider establishing a “tornado advance alert system,” according to the Clovis News-Journal.
Charles H. Crouch, chief meteorologist at the U.S. Weather Bureau in Amarillo, was planning to speak to the board about how the bureau could contribute to the cause.
The primary focus of the group was to determine the “best means of getting weather information to news media and the public.”
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