Rewatching the 2019 tornado newscast, the green screen fail is still funny. But was it staged?

Iris Schmidt · 2026-09-03T19:35:04.925964+00:00

I was in Joplin, Missouri last week scrolling old clips and landed on that KODE broadcast where the weather map glitched mid-alert. The anchor's hand melted into the storm tracker for a solid 8 seconds. Some folks say it was a real hardware crash, others think the station milked it for clicks. Which side do you lean on when the blooper gets more views than the actual warning?

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