Kds86z
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Enhanced today. Looks like an active pattern.. via spc
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TornadoFan
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And my area is under another slight risk for severe thunderstorms. Can't remember the last time that happened so close together here.
CheeselandSkies
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Not every year you see SPC with 15%+ outlook highlights all the way up to Day 5 at the end of June going into July.
The thing about these warning tags.. the average person will not know about them unless someone in the weather community mentions it since they are at the bottom of the warning text, and people will not read all the warning text just to read the tags.
I was talking to a friend who is a forecaster at the Jackson NWS a while back, and he told me it would take a national change to get these tags moved to the front of the warning text. James Spann has been a huge advocate for trying to change the situation.
If they had issued a tornado warning, you would had more people reacting to it than a hidden "tornado possible" tag inside a severe thunderstorm warning.
I was talking to a friend who is a forecaster at the Jackson NWS a while back, and he told me it would take a national change to get these tags moved to the front of the warning text. James Spann has been a huge advocate for trying to change the situation.
If they had issued a tornado warning, you would had more people reacting to it than a hidden "tornado possible" tag inside a severe thunderstorm warning.
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Clancy
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That's the one issue with the augmentation of SVRs with the TOR possible tag; by the time it gets to the "be alert for a possible tornado" part of the message on an audible broadcast, most folks will have tuned out, and obviously the vast majority of folks aren't going to read the warning descriptors at the bottom of an alert. I get it was designed with FAR reduction in mind, and it's a great concept but I'm not sure how serviceable it really is to the public.
TheSuckZone
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JPWX
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I'm curious as to why you hate that. I mean I can see your point if it was just a regular SVR warning. Overall I really like their warning graphics. I just wish you could find them online instead of just on social.I absolutely hate where they have decided to display that on the SVR warnings
TheSuckZone
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I like the graphic for a regular SVR warning. I just think a lot of people probably miss the little footnote TOR possible almost hidden in the graphic
Clancy
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Even in the dead heat of summer, diurnal storms know to respect the divine power imbued within I-20.
JPWX
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Ah gotcha. Yeah. That and the Considerable, PDS, Destructive type wording should be put in the main title. Like Abbreviated underneath the Severe Thunderstorm Warning, etc.
TheSuckZone
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We'll see if North Platte set their alarm to go in tonight
CheeselandSkies
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It's still a ways out, but this forecast sounding out of eastern Iowa is not something you see every year in July, either (although, taken verbatim, low-level lapse rates are a potential fly in the ointment as they were last Saturday).
Extremely dangerous situation severe thunderstorm warning (that's was a mouthful lol) currently from Bismarck north Dakota down to almost rapid city South Dakota.
Just FYI I've heard there are some behind-the-scenes things going on at an administrative level to address this LBF issue. I won't divulge what those are, but there are wheels turning.
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Tanner
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That’s great. Hopefully nothing more than an understanding and slap on the wrist.
Clancy
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Possible surprise tornado occurred near Jacksonville a few minutes ago.
Shakespeare 2016
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Way less than half a**ed.
TornadoFan
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Iowa is at it again.
Supercell near Emporia KS might be about to get interesting.
