Dale Munson is a former television and radio personality, best remembered as a weatherman for WOWT-TV

WOWT-TV

WOWT-TV, digital channel 22, virtual channel 6 via PSIP and Cox Communications cable channel 8, is the NBC affiliate television station in Omaha, Nebraska. WOWT also serves the state capital, Lincoln, 52 miles away, with broadcast and cable coverage...

 in Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

 during the 1970s

1970s

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 and 1980s

1980s

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His 46-year broadcasting career also included work in Iowa and Minnesota, before he spent eight years as an announcer and classical music

Classical music

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 DJ

Disc jockey

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 for KVNO

KVNO

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 radio in Omaha.

During his time at WOWT, Munson saw at first hand the devastation caused by the 1975 Omaha tornado, which caused particularly serious damage to his own neighborhood. The following year Munson was the victim of a violent attack in the station's lobby, where a woman who had asked to see him stabbed his cheek and arm with a knife. The injuries required hospital treatment, and the attacker was temporarily institutionalized.

Munson retired in 1991, but he was chosen by NOAA Weather Radio

NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards

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 to present a program on the Omaha tornado's 25th anniversary in 2000, and he has continued to appear at Omaha public events. He received a lifetime achievement award from the University of Nebraska at Omaha

University of Nebraska at Omaha

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's Department of Communication in 2000, and was named a member of the Nebraska Radio Personalities Hall of Fame in 2004.