On Monday, May 17, 2021 the City of Lubbock received a tornado warning from the National Weather Service in Lubbock. With the threat of severe weather, Lubbock and Texas Tech offer students and citizens several warning notification systems.
The last time Lubbock received a tornado warning was on April 30, 2012, according to Justin Weaver, meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service in Lubbock. Sending out tornado warnings is something the NWS is careful about.
âWeâre very careful about issuing tornado warnings in the first tornado warning we issued for the city of Lubbock in nine years,â Weaver said.
There are two weather advisories that come from NWS, watches and warnings. Watches, according to Weaver, are when conditions are favorable for severe weather to happen. Warnings are issued when the threat of severe weather is high enough that the public needs to be warned about.
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Over the last few years, government organizations, both in Maine and around the nation, have started using the cellphone network to send out critical information. The system is called Wireless Emergency Alerts. Basically, they are like the 21st century version of the Emergency Broadcast System (now known as the Emergency Alert System) that radio and TV stations use. So far, in Maine at least, it has mostly been used for Amber Alerts. Occasionally, it has been used to alert people about severe winter weather or tornadoes (a rare occurrence here in Maine).
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Shake Alert is the West Coast s young, but working, earthquake warning system. On Thursday, it frightened some Bay Area residents when it sent alerts to their cell phones to brace for a magnitude 6.0 earthquake. KTVU s Tom Vacar reports.
ShakeAlert, the west coast s still young but operating earthquake warning system, scared some Bay Area folks Thursday evening who thought they would soon be hit by a substantial earthquake.
ShakeAlert is still a work in progress and what it did last night was done one without passion, instantaneously and using the best evidence available.