Whether the tornado was spotted by a spotter or spotted by radar, you should be seeking shelter either way. You don't always have the luxury of someone seeing the tornado and calling it in. So no, the response should not be different.
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Whether the tornado was spotted by a spotter or spotted by radar, you should be seeking shelter either way. You don't always have the luxury of someone seeing the tornado and calling it in. So no, the response should not be different.
People are starting to see it as crying wolf. That’s a problem. A distinction alleviates that.
You might be right, but you aren’t taking real basic human nature into account.
August 28th, 1990. Plainfield tornado. There is no actual video of this EF5 tornado that killed 29 people and injured 353 because it was rain wrapped. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there was the ability back then to determine a "radar indicated" tornado. The tornado touched down at 3:15p, and the first warning wasn't issued until a few minutes later.
So yeah, if there's a radar indicated tornado and I'm possibly in the path, I'm seeking shelter.
People should absolutely be alerted to a severely increased likelihood.
If the NWS treats it as the same thing as an actual tornado, people will naturally take the warning less seriously.
Or that "distinction" might cause them to ignore the radar-indicated ones and not treat it with the same seriousness necessary.
Just because some idiots might view it as "crying wolf" doesn't mean we should do everything to cater to that subset.
Yeah, I saw a grain bin get blown apart and sent across the road.
They’re already ignoring it. If you don’t see that as a problem, I guess you don’t.
Quad cities office is in the warning box so another office has to take over for them until the warning is over right?
NWS report of storm in Central Iowa.
My hometown has stopped sounding the tornado siren unless there is a tornado on the ground as too many people were ignoring the siren. Now we know if the siren goes off better take shelter as **** is about to get real. Unless it's noon on saturday.
Just for arguments sake: you’d rather have a tornado warning after the twister forms and plows through your neighborhood vs being warned a tornado is about to form/drop
Beyond the explicit statement of radar indicated and observed?
And in addition to Tornado Emergency?
People already confuse Tornado Watch vs Warning.
Feels weird to have 35-40mph gusts from the East while storms are coming from the west at 70.
No.
Just a term that differentiates between a confirmed funnel on the ground and one that’s extremely possible.
Have NWS issue a separate Tornado Confirmation. Warning means what it does now, Confirmation means what warning did 20 years ago.
