Lack of Data Kills

The data gaps and the lack of warning:

I believe this is a good example of what we talked about a couple of weeks ago. In order to consistently and accurately predict these type of events, I believe we need more weather observations, especially weather balloons. We simply do not have enough information about what is going on in the upper levels of the atmosphere to accurately predict these type of events well in advance. 

Did you know there are only 7 weather balloon stations for the entire state of Texas? And there are NO launching sites in central Texas. So for the area between Fort Worth and Midland - both cities of which routinely launch weather balloons - there was NO BALLOON DATA. We used to have weather balloons in Stephenville and San Antonio, but those were closed years ago.