Tornado Warnings/Sirens

[cards2468]

Again, somebody's house is beneath where that tornado touches down. A warning under your system is too late for them.

And tornados as predictable as thunderstorms? WTF? As predictable as exactly where lightning will strike, maybe.

Hence a tornado *watch*.

I dunno if the predictability statement was aimed at me. I said tornadoes are not as predictable as thunderstorms.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

A watch is just saying that conditions are ripe for a tornado.

A warning doesn't mean that an actual fully formed or touched down tornado has been spotted, but a rotational pattern (which tornadoes drop from) has been spotted by watchers or radar.

I'm sure the people that heeded the warnings that were issued a half an hour in advance this weekend are pretty happy with the system.

[lukethedrifter]

And this would be why you need warnings. These people sort of deserved to get large shards of glass embedded in their larynxes.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXmi2p4u ... dded#at=85][/youtube]

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Oh my god. I like how you all trying to turn this into a rant against tornado warnings. It's a rant against tornado warnings that didn't need to be issued which around here are far more than the ones issued where there was a tornado.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

http://arkansasmatters.com/fulltext/?nxd_id=415097

[IMADreamer]

You know what let's just do away with them all together maybe get rid of some more of the stupid in this world. I'll bet the people in that article are the same tea baggin [expletive] that want to cut research funding then would [expletive] if a tornado hit there house."why wasn't I warned!"

[lukethedrifter]

you really should check out that video. It's pretty awesome to see so many people who lack a basic survival instinct.

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Oh my god. I like how you all trying to turn this into a rant against tornado warnings. It's a rant against tornado warnings that didn't need to be issued which around here are far more than the ones issued where there was a tornado.

So you're pissed that no tornadoes touched down even though there was tornadic rotation?

[Spider John]

I understand what you're saying, AW. The number of tornado warnings have increased over the years due to better technology, but the actual percentage of sighted tornadoes from those warnings is very small. I bet the actual of tornadoes sighted in comparison to tornado warnings is less than 10%.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

I bet the actual of tornadoes sighted in comparison to tornado warnings is less than 10%.

Would you like to see less warnings? I'm trying to figure out why the above is a bad thing given the devastation that can happen in a very short amount of time with a tornado. Look at that video of the tornado hitting the airport with all the people looking out the window. It looked like it formed right there. They had little / no time to take corrective action.

Last year i watched a funnel come out of the cloud. Doesn't take long and what you can see isn't the whole thing as the cyclonic action is happening in the air underneath the funnel as it comes down as well.

Also remember that some funnels will never get to the ground either. The radar can see the cyclonic motion but can't tell if its on the ground.

All in all, I guess I don't mind the tornado warnings even if it is only 10% 'actual'. it saves lives.