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The National Weather Service has announced they re putting a pair of new warning categories into effect soon. One of the two will trigger an alert to your cell phone.
Today, the National Weather Service said that the new categories will be in place for especially strong severe thunderstorms. The added warning categories are for Destructive and Considerable damage threats. The new warning categories will each go into effect on Monday, August 2. Here are the specifics.
A Destructive Severe Thunderstorm Warning will be issued if a storm has at least 2.75-inch hail. That s baseball-sized. If a storm has either hail of that size and/or winds of 80 miles-per-hour, the Destructive warning would be issued. If you are in the area where one of these storms is located, you ll receive a message similar to the one below.