No, they don't look at the dopler radar. They have much more sophisticated equipment from the US government to work with than the TV news.
I just love the idiots that think they know better than the pilot how to fly the plane. Just because severe weather had moved through the area, doesn't mean it was unsafe to land when you did. I've been in the same boat before, landing in another midwestern city, only to get off the plane, and see the tornado damage along the way home. It had went through town less than an hour before we had landed. But by the time we got there, it had broken up and was no longer a threat.
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