Here we go again...(tornado watches/warnings)

[rainbow4321]

Sure feels like it outside, too...still, stagnant/warm air here in North TX.


DU'ers in the path of this may want to keep one eye open tonight (and ear, for any sirens).


http://weatherblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/03/possible-tornado-near-greenville.html

Police scanner traffic indicates weather spotters may be tracking a tornado developing about 13 miles south of Greenville (TX) and moving northeast at about 40 m.p.h.


http://weatherblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/03/potential-storms-could-get-ugly.html


AccuWeather.com reports a new storm system developing today over the southern Plains through Wednesday will spark strong storms across the South and into the Midwest. The strongest storms will develop today from south-central Texas to northeastern Oklahoma and will produce heavy rain, hail, and damaging straight-line winds, while the potential of isolated tornado development cannot be ruled out.

[Oceansaway]

1. stay safe...n/t

[moriah]

2. If your sirens aren't loud/reliable/even present....

... one thing that helps is a weather radio.

Yeah, they can be annoying, the one I have will beep with just a watch rather than a warning. It goes totally ape*** on a warning, but it still will wake you up just to let you know your county is under a flash flood watch. I'd rather it only do its thing when there's a warning, and I'm pretty sure I could get a different model where I could set it up to only do that, but I got the cheap one that also works as a alarm clock.

We got it after my gentleman slept through a tornado that took quite a few of the shingles off of our roof, then took the entire roof off of the athletic complex for our local school less than a quarter mile away from us. They'd had warning sirens going at first since there were actually two tornadoes that hit our county -- he'd been awake and saw on weather.gov about the first one, then when it ended he went to sleep. Less than 15 minutes later there was another warning and our sirens went off, the tornado came really close to our house, and he slept through it because the warning sirens are so soft that you can't hear them in the house, let alone let them wake you up. If you have a window open or are outside you can hear them, but they just aren't all that effective.

Weather radios, I can attest, will get you up and out of bed, and the few tornado warnings since then have been predicted much quicker by the weather radio -- usually there's a minute or two delay before the sirens start up. A minute or two can save a life.

[mac2]

4. I keep my weather warning device on all the time when I

see bad weather on the way. I keep it near my bed at night too.

I never had to worry about storms like that in NY State. We here in the MW get them in the early Spring mostly. It's the hot air coming in from the Gulf coast meeting up with the cold air from Canada.

In my kitchen and family room I've seen more than one thunder bolt dance through it. I stay off the phone since that was hit one time.

A relative of ours in Florida has one and it saved her and her mother's life. They ducked into the bathroom and laid down in the tub with the mattress over them. Their home was gone but they were alive.

My boating brother-in-law in Wilmington, NC also told me about them.

Thanks for telling people about those alarms.

[mac2]

3. Keep safe.

Your areas seems to be better at weather warnings than those in Atlanta. They had a minute or something like that. People in a big stadium and no good warning.

Same thing happened in the suburbs of Chicago (just West of O'Hare airport). A town only had a three minute warning that a tornado was upon them. Are those weather people allowing damage for news or what?

In Atlanta...how about a big warning on that big screen at the park? "A tornado is on us...get under a shelter." They only had a short warning too.

I read about damage in the Northern areas above Atlanta last year. Chicken farm was leveled, etc.

You would think the tax payer installed weather service at the Atlanta airport and (home of the Weather Channel) and Chicago would have given a tornado notice. Is this not outrageous?

Since when does tax payer dollars spent on weather devices and services only give information to the airports? Does this have to do with "privatization of the weather." I guess we can add that to the list of non-functioning public service resulting from privatization. Lives mean little but profit (and not being sued) for airlines/airport mean more.

Privatization=profit above human life.
Globalization=profit for the elite few above human life.