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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - 10:03AM

Tornado outbreaks today and tomorrow

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and brought down my business.

I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. This page is a detailed account of the biggest threat to my photography and video operation that I had to battle daily to just barely survive, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem facing all of my colleagues as well.

Here are today's tornado probabilities from the SPC, depicting a large outbreak of tornadoes over Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri this afternoon and into tonight:

Tomorrow's outlook looks even more ominous and widespread, affecting states from Mississippi to Kentucky to Michigan. The following graphic covers combined probabilities for hail, tornadoes and high winds:

Today and tomorrow could very well be a historic two-day outbreak, continuing unbroken overnight into the morning. Due to several unforseen expenses this week, my westward extent of travel to chase this event may be limited. I will know more later today on what my plans to cover this will be. We should still see at least one or two rounds of severe storms here in the Charleston area tomorrow into Friday.