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April 20, 2021
RAPID CITY, S.D. – As part of this week’s Severe Weather Awareness Week, the National Weather service is staging it’s annual tornado drill.
Wednesday morning between 9 and 9:30 a.m., the NWS will be issuing a tornado warning for the area.
They want us all to remember that it’s a drill but to also start thinking about the weeks ahead when we might be in a scenario that’s not a drill.
“It gives people a minute to pause thinking, ‘What would I do right now if this was a real tornado warning’,” said Susan Sanders, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the NWS Rapid City Office. “They’re not at home generally so they would have to think about where their shelter would be at that particular moment.”
While this technology is reliable, it’s simply no substitute for trained human eyes. Author: Skot Covert Updated: 8:16 AM CDT April 15, 2021
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Every year hundreds of severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings are issued by the National Weather Service.
These warnings, sent as push alerts to cell phones or scrolled at the bottom of televisions, are calls to action for people to seek shelter from imminent severe weather. Often these warnings are issued based upon data collected by a network of doppler radars.
While this technology is reliable, it’s simply no substitute for trained human eyes, and that’s why the National Weather Service in North Little Rock isn’t letting COVID-19 stop it from training storm spotters.
In this week'ss Weather Wednesday, StormTRACKER Meteorologist Jesse Ritka tells us about the National Weather Service's program that lets anyone become an official storm spotter.
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