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flower-studded-sake-dish · 6 months ago

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somewhat related but i didn’t wanna just put all this in the tags - something that the NWS has been doing in the last couple years that’s really frustrated me is the Severe Thunderstorm Warnings with the ‘Tornado Possible’ tag. As with the above reblog I also live in an area that sees more tornadoes than any other in the world (the above tornado was three miles from my apartment!) and people see ‘Severe Thunderstorm Warning’ and just… continue about their day as normal. The ‘Tornado Possible’ tag will NOT get communicated to the public! What’s the point if not to increase safety and awareness! It seems like a reaction to people complaining about Tornado Warnings being issued for storms that don’t produce a tornado, which happens for a variety of reasons not the least of which being that it’s just impossible to have people on the ground looking at every storm. I just think it’s not a great solution to the problem of “people are complaining that they have to take shelter for storms that ended up not posing an immediate threat to their wellbeing.”

Without looking it up, when you first hear "Tornado Warning", what does that mean to you?

#NWS has historically been poor with weather awareness education #which is a given since it’s in this shithole country #and this is all conjecture but i’d guess in recent years (post onset of covid) a lot more people have been interacting with NWS on twitter #who treat severe weather like it’s a spectator sport. people who aren’t in affected areas complain about storms being warned where #no tornado forms and NWS sees this and treats it like a pressing matter when it’s just… people on twitter complaining #the preemptive / safety tornado warnings they give are usually the ones under most scrutiny #for the record i’m in favor of them issuing warnings for possible rotation in storms that are in areas with poor radar coverage #or at night when it’s hard to confirm a tornado on the ground. warning times have increased dramatically in the last 20 years #which has saved lives along with local news stations’ meteorologists educating people watching on the difference between warning and watch #i’ve also seen a lot of places i’ve worked around here have posted signs in hallways telling people the difference #weather

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